Never Have I Felt So Small

Never have I felt so small As when standing by the sea— Perhaps it was its vastness, Or maybe it was me? The water, it seemed endless, The horizon out of view— I felt fragile as the butterfly That sips the morning dew. And standing there the longest while, For an hour—or even two— I observed the sea was still as large, Though my inches just as few. And yet I left a taller man, Though in stature as a bee— Quite in awe of nature’s grandeur, Though it took the sea, to see!