SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE OCEAN AND THE UNIVERSE by Rebecca Elson

If the ocean is like the universe Then waves are stars.

If space is like the ocean, Then matter is the waves, Dictating the rise and fall Of floating things.

If being is like ocean We are waves, Swelling, traveling, breaking On some shore.

If ocean is like universe then waves Are the dark wells of gravity Where stars will grow.

All waves run shorewards But there is no centre to the ocean Where they all arise.