ocean

there is a love that can be touched
but only as in the deepest part
of the quietest ocean.


it is a deep-soaking
infiltrating
permeating kind of love
impartial and unexplained.


it whelms the whole person,
unabated by any peculiarities.
engulfing the soul in a foamy wash.


so gentle and unmoved
as it fingers within and without


yet as heavily spread
as tar to seal away an underworld of grief.