Awareness pierced
As though through the slow curving sparks above,
While phosphor-gleaming surf was swirling round your boots,
Tilting your poise.
Infused, you knew the elemental frame:
The fragile bond among all living things came clear.

It’s been disturbed.
You felt the equilibrium upset
Some intervention knocked the symmetry a skew.
Suspicion gnawed,
The time for research in the field has passed.
You’ve been compelled to shed your timidness and fight.

You’re of the sea, the source, your blood.
She nourishes, as you infuse your brood,
And when, at end, your vital fluid drains,
She will enshrine your spent remains.

So vast is she:
You held her scale as unassailable,
A self-sustaining sanctum wove from diverse life.
Now you confront
Mankind’s abuse of her munificence,
The rank, corrupting taint of unashamed greed.

Evidence grows:
The poison is detected everywhere,
From field to birds and fish, the very food you eat.
With wasting strength,
Defend against base personal assaults,
While noxious cells invade your breast, a two-front war.

You’re of the sea, the source, your blood.
She nourishes, as you infuse your brood,
And when, at end, your vital fluid drains,
She will enshrine your spent remains.