Majestic sea, how you tantalize me, filling me with dreams of distant shores and awakening in me desires that only she can fulfill, cruel temptress. Like an old friend she welcomes me back, and like a lover whispers to me her sweet songs from the horizon; entreating me to throw off the bow line and navigate her vastness once more. How I long to disappear beyond this field of vision into her wondrous, familiar expanse. Here I know I will find that silvery solace that only her quiet companionship can bring, and the ravenous beast that trembles within me will finally know peace.

And when I finally see the sea again, I am filled with a wholeness unmatched. She is a fierce, cruel lover, the sea, tormenting me with promises of a new horizon, bathing me in the sweet smell of salt and discovery. And I return to the sea, time and again, to the certainty of danger and resplendence that is her nature: violent, unforgiving, powerful, constant, enchanting, pure. And in her mighty splendor I am both lost and found, resolute, and insignificant. And in her mighty splendor I am home. 

-Me