Wake

Every working day, I travel over the Colonial Bridge into Cape Coral. Once upon the bridge I enter a prayerful state of gratitude and I have had many hours to think about, what I believe to be, the feminine energy of the Gulf waters. With reflection, I wrote:


 

Water is a strong and beautiful woman
who has experienced the world.
She is satisfied by light;
open to surface encounters.
She harbors life, nurtures it,
and is deepened by appreciation.
Injured by insensitivity. Wake to
  an undeniable force;
a cradle and a monster
vast but not full.
Tales and truths
  mysteries and miracles
wrap around the world
whispering stories 
from depths to shore
 in every language
loved, feared
unknowable, completely.

(p.malafronte 2013)