Love's Ebb and Tide

Love’s Ebb and Tide by Odin Roark One never picks a tide’s movement Forces outside one’s mere wishes Answer to only that which stays Beneath the surface of our eyes Allowing this habit of nature To reign free of man’s control Even so We oft times try to emulate nature But as a species capable of choice We chance to choose rightly And wrongly When the ocean’s force appears Its shoreline unknown The energy’s roil considers To lay back Or plunge ahead So too proceeds most relationship decisions To risk another rocky shore Or skirt the obstructions Find smooth grounding So often guised as safe haven Yet Jungle laden danger Often lurks once ashore To know of harmony Emotion often seeks waves fully spent Where energy’s current willingly gives pause Affording lapping repose as a cradling comfort While knowing full well Keeping control is only nature’s to have To give Yet love Like a weathered pier Knows of such challenges Fully aware Erosion is inevitable Even as truth’s layered protection Awaits its timed revelation Underpinnings’ deeply buried security Patiently abides its day to reveal Life’s unification Only known by ebb’s gentility Tide’s warrior strength And the mutual respect Shared with shore’s embrace Such a oneness few experience Even fewer allow the tide its freedom To be all its genderless wisdom needs Accepting no ownership Lease Or confinement Such is volition’s character Devotion’s simple honesty An open heart’s willingness