Poetry

All the Ocean

Of our heart

We don’t get much time to be human, to be the soul of the universe living as a human being, the silent eternal experiencing life inside us, hearing the sound of ocean surf rolling on a beach, seeing the wild resilient beauty of windswept trees, knowing something of its own beauty reflected in the world.

And while we still have life, there’s time to know the wisdom in the silence, those sudden insights emerging from a universal soul, the star filled sky breathing through our heart, the intelligence that shows itself in birdsong and all the swirling spirals of the stars, bringing inspiration to our intuitive ear and meaning into now while all the moments pass and are gone forever like whispers fading in the wind.

And while the morning sun shines green through nearby leaves, the silent mystery that guides all life and every human heart brings a knowing woven through the silence as though the whole universe knew every breath and every moment, and it brings me home into itself, within an endless conscious ocean.

Paul Mulliner 2023