Anchor

Apprentice to an anchor

Am I

Of seafaring pursuits

Water and land entwined

My soul embarked upon

A voyage

To master

This power of mine

Surface of the ocean

Translucent with the sun rays

Dark and stinging are her depths

Shipwrecks sentenced to decay

The Ocean

She provides

The battlefield

To practice

Summon and wield

This power of mine

An apprentice, I

My master, Anchor

Once cloaked a curse

Revealed a blessing

This powerful force of mine

To feel so intensely iron

A steel anchor

I once allowed

My soul to sink

To the bottom of the ocean

Lifeless

The dark black sand

Was where I summoned all my strength

And chose

To search for dry land

Bound to this anchor

I gathered her

And tied her to my back

Making peace

With burdens be

Instead of counterforce attack

Treading on the ocean floor

One step at a time

Defying laws of gravity

Embracing this force of mine

No air did I need

For I left my body behind

This was a new being of me

Trusting this force of mine

In treading did I see

A sliver of the sun's light

I kept pushing through water

Continuing my soul's fight

As I reached the beginning

Of the water's end

The anchor released from me

She nestled in the sand grove

And peace she made with me

Almost weightless

Almost free

I surrendered to the wave

Allowing sea to carry me

Upon the shoreline cascade

Crashing down so softly

The dry sand wrapping me

The water and I parted ways

As tide returned to sea

My Odyssey

Completed

The powerful force

I fought and fought

I now accept

I'm my own Anchor

Mastering the sea

But no longer bound myself

In water or land, I'm free