Governess Salt
ah, the ocean. always and forever, deeply respected, beautifully unforgiving, my sanity, my home away from home.
She’ll crash down her wisdom of grey
She’ll make her presence known
Seemingly so violent,
so unforgiving,
so harsh
Yet all along
so nurturing,
as a lesson is always delivered,
one that is never pushed aside
A mentor for all her creatures
A sister to the sand
While she stirs her chaotic abysmal pot,
she does so with an always open hand
Oh so delicate coral;
all of the sharpest tips
So needle point fine
Continuously growing ridged over father’s cruel nonstop ticking time
A guarding gate of devout protection
Destination be damnation to the enemy,
should they wish to attempt such a climb
Her children at birth,
first only taught how to respect
her openness, her direction
Being her only expectation
Such lessons of love
Such laborious devotion
always a given,
with unspoken explanation
Her sparkling crystal palace
Beaming all her blue
Giving all her grey
Delivering all of her depth;
All inviting
All intoxicating
All in its entirety,
ever enticing
A popular craving for her abundant plantation
A constant kindness, she will deliver
Ever respecting from the beginning
Yet never frail,
never weak
Her doors always remain open...
Only when such manners chose to be forgotten,
her illuminating warm invitation
will rightfully so, without warning,
quickly become rotten
Her hierarchy brethren within the current;
her designated swift actors of protection
her guards
her sons
her frontline’s men by election
sent to deliver a message,
one openly obvious from every direction
Allowing you to kick
Allowing you to paddle
Only to obtain a tiresome struggle
Dealing you your future of forever,
to reside in her now tightly gripped domicile of brine
You are now a predestined path
of nutrition distribution
amongst her dedicated subaquatic bloodline
And when bellies turn full
Off your once inner, blatant disregard
You should be proud knowing that today in your new life...
You are now too a protector,
To the mother of forever
Disrespected is a never...
On her barnacle boulevard
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