Sea of Eyes

Sea of eyes reeling me in

expecting I’d drown within the current view

Instead, I build a raft from fragments of my soul

Casting my gaze to the skies

Gliding on my internal light

Why ever would I want to be embedded in a single wave?

When I am in fact the entire sea

an ocean

You offer me glasses of salted water

so that I’d become dehydrated

easy to persuade

but I know better than that

Filtering out these social constraints

that are so quick to cancel those who live within their truths

Beneath the surface of those piercing eyes

rest a bed of monsters

polluted waters

hate

Have we really adjusted to becoming silent?

Letting the world wrinkle away

waterlogged with war & misconceptions

Sea of eyes

you can not consume me

I will never be just a wave

& I hope that those who have been washed away

will resurface

those stranded

become found

because we each are not just a wave

You are in fact an entire sea

an ocean

a reflection of the world you want to swim in

You are a human being with a soul

not meant to blend in