Cleanse Me

Wipe the crust from my eyes

Clear the windows of my soul

Open my eyes to see

Truly witness

The majesty of creation

The ocean

Powerful mountains of salty liquid

Racing across the surface

Capped with toupees of white

Blown off as they go!

The vastness

Only ocean, sky, clouds

Deepest blue enhanced with grey

Topped by robin’s egg sky

Decorated with mounds of meringue

Beneath that rolling sea

Exists a living world

May it remain

May it sustain

So many lives dwelling within

Plants, animals – microscopic to gargantuan

Baleen whales thriving on diets of tiniest plankton

The miracle of life’s cycle

Played out in harmony

All held within this liquid home

May we treasure it

May we respect it

May we learn from it.