“And There Was No Longer Any Sea”

Does it ever end

The blue expanse

Stretched across

Oceans and land?

Is there an end

To the gathered seas

Abandoned shorelines

And sandy beach?

Horizons joining

The sky and seas as one

A sort of marrying

Like man of flesh and bone

There is no end

As long as time exists

Our heavy burden

Sorrows and sadness

Just as the sky

Stretches endlessly

The curse and pain

Is mankind’s destiny

Does the sea

Create lands boundary?

Or does land

Hold back the tides and sea?

As with our bodies

Depths of pain a path

Beyond the edge

Contained, yet waves do crash

Upon our faces

When tears breach sandy shores

Of our hearts

The tide pool of our souls

Only beyond

The heavens and the shore

An end to pain

Our souls will finally know

When every tear

We shed is wiped away

By the hand

That first did separate

The firmament

A ceiling ’bove the sea

The expanse

The sky; the heavenlies

Only fleeting

When the sun, she sets

As does our sadness

When we reach our death