See Kayaker

...image from the Patagonia website (July 2009)

When you took to the Carolinian ocean

that summer day,

did you know She was calling you?

The Siren...

She is alluring

and She will not be forsaken.

The you of You she desires to take,

you will surrender.

Her song intends to penetrate

the soul.

It will.

And, at the very moment you

realize you are unabashedly naked

in your Truth,

She has succeeded in her seduction.

The Siren asks:

"Of these salty tears upon which you come to me,

which are your own?

Which have you manifested through Others?

And, which are rightfully yours,

though still outcast by pride and

shame and fear?"

"Be attentive gentle man,"

she urges.

"Within each, shed by Grief or Joy,

is the chemistry for Life support -

the alchemical possibility of

buoyancy upon the waves and tides

of this Water Planet."

That stirring and questioning

within you

about monsters in the

dark depths,

that's Her way of saying:

"You must let yourself

be devoured by the dangerous

beasts in your abyss

before I shall release you

to the shore,

Before you will truly know

your footing on the

shifting sands of Fate."

She has made no mistake

in inviting you to meet her

where the bodies of the worlds

explore each other’s touch.

Here you will feel their union

within your own being.

Here you will remember

the reason you've chosen

this inhabitance.

The gull above and within you

calls out your True Name.

She and I look forward

to the day you declare it,

as a gift,

to the awaiting horizon.

(c) 2009-2013/Jamie K. Reaser

Published in "Note to Self: Poems for Changing the World from the Inside Out: (www.hiraethpress.com)