A Sonnet: On Boundaries

Dawn draws her line along mother earths face And she turns to bask in her lovers light And so Dawn comes in turn to every place She brings us forth from the long dark night Here is where the ocean meets the land Vast and deep and so different from the dirt Crashing on the rocks, lapping against sand Pebbles pushed to and fro, the globe she girt Steepening mountains come to abrupt end Where they scrape against the blue blue sky the cliffs stand and harbor no foe nor friend And here the very earth just falls away this is where the day unfurls this edge is where souls uncurl 20160623