Eternal Conflict

Ocean.

An endless invasion

of mindless charging cavalry

smashing themselves into white oblivion;

sacrificial pawns against the onyx spears of stalwart rock

with flying crest and thunderous un-abating battle-cry.

Mortally wounded, waves hiss and struggle,

weakening onto the clutching sand

with a final gurgle

to die

as

their souls;

grey vanishing ghosts

are borne aloft - by the wind.


Wind.

Daughter of the Sea,

iKala, Great Valkyrie, bearer of Poseidon's flag;

urges her waves to disciplined frenzy – “Onwards into the fray.”

Divine wings beat war-paint across the bedlam sky,

as she spreads her cold mists of deception

then lays siege to the earth

with storm

that -

smites mountain,

forest, valley and desert plain,

carving great wounds into the imperturbable Land .


Land.

Passive yet resolute,

concealing a fiery inner temper

yields her body grudgingly to the ocean.

Returns the weapon of her own destruction, steeped

in her own essence, blood and crushed up bone.

Trickling back to the sea in sacred scars;

returning to their beginnings,

cycle the fragile

tears of

life.


© WW Schwim 7 October 2009


Photo: © WW Schwim. Maitland Beach, Eastern Cape, South Africa.