An OCEAN of thanks and appreciation

A Poem for ME

July 20, 21 & 22 in the year 2017... 

With an OCEAN of thanks and appreciation...
I see the vast open sea...
The florious gifts of water and life...
The glorious gifts of the air I breathe...
For you, today I stop and give thanks...
For me, today I stop just to be...

I give thanks for the ebb and the flow of the water
Appreciate the tide of the air I breathe
Honour the fires that burn and protect
The passions and values that make me
make me
ME
Tending the crops of the Earth's gentle bounties
Taking gentle care of my family
Taking gentle care of my nest and mai home
Being sure to remember to take care of me
OF ME
Of me, and not me
all the gifts that I have
Of me and by me
all the gifts that can be
Of me, and through me, and all of the rest
The gifts and the stories of the elements of me...

I bask in the sun on a rock by the day
I bask in the moon on a rock by night
I bask in our secrets and share in our stories
The tales of great oceans and struggles and sees

The seas doth surround us
Our islands float free
The parts and the pieces
That make you and me
All our elements of life
Are connected by threads
Strands, patches and knots
Both seen and unseen
But the sea that I see is not the same ocean
The see that I see is not the same sea
The one that I loved and wrote of and shared
The sea that I thought
Belonged to me 

I'm still mulling the meaning of all of those elements
Still distilling the meaning of all of those seas
Fermenting my words
My friends and my foes
Those tales of my oceans
Some never to be
And tales of my sees
I thought you could see 
But my tales of my sees were never my ocean
My tales of the seas don't belong to me
They are the tales of our journey
The tails of our lives
Stories we share
For you and for me
Tales of tending our gardens
Tales of mending our quilts
Of building our boats
And weathering the sees
The seas know the secret
The seas share the tales
Of living
AND loving 
Of sensing and growing
Of caring and learning and sharing and knowing
Of building and making and sometimes even taking
Merely surviving
But hopefully thriving
In the joys
And the tears
of you
and of me...

A poem to share by SLRSB
aka Sue the Scribe 8)
"justascribe"
...(:8:)...