Lose Me in the Ocean: A Poem

This poem serves loosely as a metaphor for becoming a Christian. The conversion experience is both painful and beautiful, allowing yourself to be molded by something greater than yourself. It's also frustrating in that it's a journey that you have to take alone, and can't bring those you love with you.

Lose me in the ocean

never find me again

let the waters carry me

like gentle giants

to a land I've only dreamed

Here the sand sparkles

the sea glass shines blue brown green

waves refine garbage

beating me over and over

on a floor of gold

What's left of me is ready

to explore a hidden island

an abandoned lighthouse

overgrowth of beauty

life floating in and out

At the top there is a lantern

old and long gone out

broken windows frame

the immensity of clouds

If I weren’t new I would know

how to make fire

light the lantern

save your ship from being battered

by the same waves that saved me

Somewhere deep down I remember

rub two sticks together

but here there are no sticks

so the most human part of me

will have to watch you silently

shatter against the rocks