the tide is going out

five islands off the shore are just five senses and the sea is merely my mind breaking off in waves of thought

the sun becomes 10000 suns rising from the sea

the mind lights the world but the mind has no light of its own

the tide is going out and the waves recede

a single sailboat meditating in the clouds

underneath the sea is something formless without a name

Captain Ahab knew it well

name it god name it consciousness or name it moby dick

I am the sea and the sea is That


~Son Rivers 2009