What Lies Beyond

He stands at the coast

Soothing his feet in the cold water

While reckoning the vastness of the blue

Hoping someday he'd swim it through.

What lies between him and the waves

Is no one but him

Something that enslaved him before

He fights it at dawn but gives up at the shore.

He looks at the waves and hears them repeat

We moisten your feet and call you to meet

The chaos of the sea which daunts you and me

But we fight the surf's tremendous silence within

Its bolt and storms in which we swam and sank

Making our way to meet the bank

Sometimes whole and sometimes in ripples.

Yet we feel whole and free

Not from turmoil or unpredictability of the sea

But from the fight in us, we remain unperturbed

Neither scared of dissolution dubiety or the defeat

So brother rise

And rise you must

From where you are taking the leap

For its not the sea that haunts you...

The fear that whispers in your ear

Has to disappear

It has chained you for a long time

Its time to taste liberation that comes beyond fear

For fear is man's greatest imprisonment