Triumph Over the Soul

Oceanic Faults

I went to the ocean so that I could feel small, insignificant, powerless.

But I came back feeling big, significant, powerful. 

I wanted to convince myself that I didn't matter. That I could do whatever I wanted, and it would make no difference. Yet the ocean drew me in. I could look out at the sea, and know that there was an end, though I could not see it. I could make a ripple in the water, and a wave would crash over a ship in Australia. I could take a lengthy stride through the deep blue, and a splash would flow over a child's feet in Japan. 

So when me time comes, as it inevitably will-- all things have a timer set from their birth-- I want to be released into the sea. So that maybe, my life will bring about the righting of an off course ship, or the gentle push of the water moving a scared swimmer back to shore.