Unbounded Sea

loving
the pristine sea
of your name

every era
through every
ancient womb

our blue hills
of knowing
climbed

our spring zephyrs
drawn into wintering
lungs

yet now
my image succumbed
to death as advisor

our wilderness
overgrown and full
of briars

your light, my sun
angled for winter
and deep sleep …

Beloved
I brook no rival to you
not even the sun

and yet
we are imperiled
by leaden skies

how
will this black gale
leave

how will the moon
engorge itself
on love

and yet
as eternal as
our unbounded sea

your name
banded around
my heart

your gaze
a refining fire
for heaven's sake

your rivulets
pooling under
the gateway home

let us not turn
from the tidal wave
of the open sea