Inflection

and then they looked to the sea with eyes floating the currents above to look beyond the sea, they thought to look beneath the sea, they wondered 'not too far', they cried out 'not too deep', they said 'let the waters comfort in the strength of tides as we listen from far away'. still and quiet in his response: 'i have but yet another night to row the sediments discarded into the sea another night is this where i learn the thoughts of the ocean. and this night is different this night is different a man dissolving to his final destination of bodies apart, floating weightless' the story when the night became different a man laid out by the sea. let alone the sky cannot forget a hymn to the sea a hymn from the sea. that night was different that man was different, parted to the heavens the stars became his eyes close enough to see how he met himself at the bottom of the ocean.