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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Sea’s Dominion

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The Sea’s Dominion

Down along the shoreline the tide
Makes edgy progress, advancing
Like some timid army into unsure ground.

But still the walls of the castles crumble
Under its unwavering assault
Until all the free land is swallowed

Into the sea’s new dominion,
And is lost beneath the waves
Falling over each other as they race

Each eager to throw itself hard against
The resisting rocks, until that cliff falls too

Leaving the land bitten off; chewed
And digested until everything, once more,
Returns to the sea we once escaped from.

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