written for the competion

   
THE MARITIMER AND THE SEA  
   
I am the deep blue of the deep blue  
I dance inwardly  
crashing white frothy spirals on the shoreline    
bringing life  
and death  
   
   
I hold in abeyance  
the fish in the sea, coral, wet fauna and leviathon  
they come and go at my bidding  
to take or be taken, to feed or be fed  
as is my deep blue whimsey  
   
Enhaling, I take back what I give  
burying deep beneath trenches my treasures  
to be found by explorers of the deep
lest they
  
   

   
Upon my watery crest , riders of the storm
Fearlessly sail, valiant where others fear to tread
yet so reckless  as to push my watery bounderys
where they will surely perish, yet they care not  


it is I Immortal    
Who deeply cares for the maritime soldiers  
they who love me more than life itself  
they who war with my water and winds  
   
It is I, who value the courage it takes to ride high  
on the perils of  my indigo waves  
not by choice, but by a need so strong  
The Maritimer would perish without it  
with a love for me so deep  
my pulse is their pulse  
   
without them  
I would be here to time indefinate  
to live forever with only the ebb and flow  
the fish and coral and fauna  
and of course the great leviathon  
   
   
for to me    
they are as awe inspiring to watch  
as I am to them