Ocean Mind

My world had fallen to waste and sorrow

Day by day, not much time left to borrow

Lost inside my reverie

Struggling from bonds of misery

My wish to leave had consumed through all thought

Year by year, horrified to strive for what I sought

Lost inside my seed of doubt

I set my eyes to ocean's route

Above the rolling seas

A bird is navigating its life

In a traceless flight

Beyond the shaking waves of temper

Inspired I commence

Regaining control of destiny

A ship is setting sail

I'm in the torrents of desire

The man in charge - king of the world!

I take command, my will assured

Invincible to the unknown

The ocean is my own

In my mind I see myself

Rule the entire world

Unsated thirst, my mind in chains

Salt water in my veins

Now in their minds they're

Thinking I'm becoming

Carelessly self-obsessed

(He's become a puppet of the ego)

Narrow-minded, greedy without mercy

I've turned my back on humility

My world has fallen beneath my own care

Guilty now of adding to the despair

Lost within a selfish mind

Struggling to see where I went blind

Alone

Why have I become

Harsh as the ocean?

Then awakened by dissonance from the sea

Fearing the strings are taken from me

Will I lose it all

The items I possess?

Once highly cherished

Now seem so meaningless

Then defeated and cast off into the sea

Too far from shore and nowhere to flee

With no air to breathe

I see illusions fail

No more denial

I'm drowning, shattered and frail

For what I've sown from pain

Becomes my private misery

And with my heart of stone

I reap my loss alone

Fallen from my throne

Then arrives the new dawning sun from the east

Humiliation finally released

I slowly feel compassion is spreading

I chance upon an injured bird

Incapable of flying

Can it be saved from dying?

Expand, letting go

Of the ego's destructive advance

We should've ceased long ago

The journey's long

I've put myself in the way

With foolish goals

That have led me astray

The bird seemed free up there in the sky

But the distance was a lie

Expand, letting go

Of the fears that forbid sympathy

Now I sail with the flow

Sun sets and storms break

I fear what they'll take

Rage set in motion

Wrath of the ocean

Lights awaken my mind

Once again the dawn is kind

Below the surface

I've left the madness behind

Now a man in poverty

But with a mind, clear and free

Despite the storm that's swelling on the outside

I'm steady in the depths of the sea

I set the bird free to fly

My inner peace unwinding

It reappears amid the setting sun

The transformation begun

I'm surrounded by a lightness

And feeling endless compassion

Now pain and joy awake my empathy

It's opened up the world for me

I finally see everything's connected

My actions have cause and effect

I influence those I'll never meet

The suffering we can defeat

My compassion's further extending

To all around me in all the world

To beings of all kinds

I've crossed my mental confines

Expand!

The journey's long

We've put ourselves in our way

With foolish goals

That have led us astray

The time slips by our hands as we rise

To reach towards the brighter skies