Unfathomable

 Chaos, beauty, terror unfathomable,
Birthing pools of life upon the shore,
Micro ecosystem, once so amicable,
Swallowed by the tide and are no more.
No more.

Churning waters consume quiet coasts,
Drawn by a distant luminous sphere,
Just as sudden, retreats as a ghost,
Just beyond, yet still so near.
So near.

Terrible beauty with monstrous ways,
Hungrily gobbling continents, species, ages,
Relentless — both retreats and pursues it's prey,
Then unleashed and bursting from it's cage.
From it's cage.

Then a hell-fury of blinded rage,
Strips the land and sea of it's stories.
Roar of wind, claw of sea — drench with sorrow,
'Till spent and retiring to quiet energies,
To quiet energies.

Then mournful it laps with a tender kiss,
The shores that broke apart the fury.
Now resume the gifts of life and bliss,
In a blatant, lovely, edenic hypocrisy.
Edenic hypocrisy.

The sea.