Sea of Stars

Have you ever wondered why

the sea reflects the night sky?

how its face changes to reflect

the stars that grace the dark

how you could get lost

just gazing into the ocean

as if the stars were gently

being swept away

by the waves

I wonder what the sea

looked like when I was born

what planets were being slowly

pushed to their destinations

that at my moment of birth

these planets connected

to the sea of stars

as if my very being

reflects the planets

when I first drew breathe

I look into myself

and see a body of water

a consciousness

driven by emotions

whose very existence

embraces the freedom

of the night sky

and dances with the whirlpool

of the stars in motion

my body just slowly drifting into this vast ocean

touching and being touched

by the countless other reflections

pushing and pulling me

into their very own streams of consciousness

I swim, I drown, and I swim again

only to dive down deeper

into the very fabric of my reality

a shooting star

slowly falling down into the

cradles of the water

where the sands of the ocean

tell the tale of the countless

other bodies who wanted

to see the mysteries

of their existence

that when the sun rises

the sands shine as if to tell me

that I am as small as it

and as big as the ocean

that in the morning

a small speck of the cosmos

grace the ocean floors