Salt and Sea

An ocean lies within us all.

We are experts at levees and dams to hold back the waves
Waves that toss and turn within us
And we build confidently and assuredly

Torrential winds threaten the soundness of my knowledge
But time is the true teacher and I am but a babe
I have seen suns rise, but never one setting

Fragility is my frame and minute cracks compose my footing
I anxiously wonder where it is, my weakness
Reluctantly I ask to see my complexion

I learn only from these holes
As the sea splashes through my eyes
And salt stains my face

Only in the midst of a flood do I finally see
(or see once again)
that I am known through and through

Distinctive as the salt on my lips
Is my soul before the Almighty

We all have the sea within
But we all taste a little different

And so we see that you know me and I you
But better yet, He knows me and He knows you

And He is the sea that will continually rage
Testing the levees and breaking the dams
Until we stop trying to hold back the waters

And I am the salt that will continually float
Upon the sea that changes you and changes me
Until I no longer fear being taken into the deep