Oceans body

• Zimara Zuhair, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2005

Waves crashing amongst our hearts
Pumping the ripples, bringing us apart
Sending the currents through our veins
Making you, driving you, utterly insane


Headlands protruding out of our minds
Soulful, unique, one of a kind
Sandy beaches sinking in our skin
The beauty of it all…mesmerising


It’s natural beauty nothing can compare
Tunnelling through our blood, concluding with a lair
A cave being formed around our nerves
The body it’s god, forever it’ll serve


Cliffs plunging deep toward our spirit
It hurts, our soul crying meaning it
Tides eroding our thoughts on life
Telling two stories both with a double side