The Ocean That My Mind Can Be

The Ocean That My Mind Can Be

A Poem by R.E.K.
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Sometimes my mind is as beautiful as an ocean, sometimes just as terrifying.

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This beautiful
That my mind is
Often
The most refreshing that I can 
Swim in
Gliding through
Reality
In an aquarium 
That rails with powdery drops
Of kaleidoscope colored beauty 
Flexing closed
As I drop

Heavy rum puts me to sleep
Drops me deep down
And I echo eerily into the ruins
Into this relic of an old woman
In my mind,
This ocean,
That flows into infinity
It Grasps hands with the river of insanity
And rushes silently 
Chokes under the caves
That within I've stored 
My everything
And then, falls gracefully,
Oh so gracefully,
In silvery strands into 
The bowels of my soul

It is so easy to
Much too easy to
Slip silently 
Into the quiet deep
This incubated blue 
That is ever expanding
It is so easy to
Much too easy to
Wander and wade
And never
Come
Out

Sometimes
It's terrifying 
When I want to come out
When I want 
To come 
Out
And when I begin to find it
Hard to breathe
To breathe
 To breathe
To breathe

I drown sometimes
In the ocean
 That my mind can be

© 2018 R.E.K.


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I love the sea. I suicided boarded three Winter storms in Monterey. To move and roll with the waves. Utopia. The sea make us feel very small. I enjoyed your words and thoughts. I live in Michigan now. I do miss the sea. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

Posted 5 Years Ago


I like to say - I've lost my mind - shhhh don't let on where I am - He's over there, Give me a few moments peace. Going back to the Ocean from the Mountains - I'll be skiing in two days and on Monday I'll be able to go to the beach in Florida. The last time in the Caribbean a year and a half ago I wrote this and was singing it in the water as I floated in the pinch me this water cannot be this beautiful - Hold Me, Hold Me, Grandmama Sea - Hold Me ... Hold me, Hold Me - Grandmama Sea Hold Me. I pray she'll quiet my mind and her sounds on the shore will calm me to my core, and we'll eat good foods as we can do farmer markets in winter there, but I'll miss skiing until March, hopefully we'll get some late storms and I'll have some wonderful powder to ride in March. And in May we'll be in Michigan on the farm - the sweet Air and the water and the trees. It's a blessing to lose our minds once in a while.

Posted 5 Years Ago


R.E.K.

5 Years Ago

Did you write this? I am absolutely blown away by it....is this a response or something you wrote? P.. read more
Healing Star

5 Years Ago

This is my response to you, and it contains several things that I wrote, I really am going to Florid.. read more

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Added on July 26, 2018
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