Ocean Waves (191 of 365)

Day 191 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Word of the day anfractuous meaning "winding or circuitous."

Ocean Waves 

I feel at peace in the sight of 

Ocean waves

The ones that look green 

The ones that ripple and swirl

And circle the rocks playfully

The water is freezing 

Unpleasantly so 

Until I dive all the way in

There's no peace until after the plunge straight down

The cold evaporates and the murky world splays itself before my eyes

There is life and dust 

There are so many invisible stories here

I throw my head back like a surfer in a perfume add 

The pretentious type 

Where there's a new world 

And there's nothing but me and this cold blue 

There is no end to it

You can't break this down

You can't make it less

The greatness is there

It dwarfs everything

I am so small

I am nothing here 

I could dissolve and my skin and bones become dust 

I could become the bed of this great pythonic sea 

I lie on my back 

Allow myself to sink down

My nostrils teasing at the surface 

I feel the water smear my insides

It's salty and penetrating and itching and biting 

My lungs hiss and garble 

I jerk up

Another wave comes and laps at my waist 

Then another comes anfractuous

And another and another.