Sea Bottle
Sway in the wind
You are all around me like snowflakes and I sign Your name in the stars
Sigh Your name in the darkness
Pour my loneliness and this ache and that longing into a bottle and cast it into the sea.
I will wait all night on the sand for You.
Will You uncork this bottle pour its contents into God's dreaming mind
and will there come a stargleam of that Great Love?
I shall wait -- years, if I must -- for the glitter of Your returning message, borne upon
the tides, until it comes to rest at my bare feet
and with my heart exploding in diamondshower birdsong tears,
clutch Your voice to my heart and become a seadrop of joy.
-Frank H. Weeden
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