Mocking The Ocean

Sensing from afar a menacing motion

I held my arms wide

And welcomed Death

From the Ocean

Feeling my presence

It swelled up, grew higher

Longing to envelop me

In its cold watery fire

It craved my spirit

Made intentions clear

I invited its wrath

And felt no fear

Long fluid hands

Spread forth like disease

With a power and swiftness

That is only The Sea's

It conquered land's barriers

Destroyed all the churches

Continued to hunt me

A most vicious of searches

Across the terrain

Both hilly and flat

Its strategy for death

Rehearsed and down pat

Soon found me alone

By myself, looking lazy

It hesitated and pondered

Could this guy be crazy?

The mere mortal should fear me

It continued to think

I scoffed

And poured myself another stiff drink

Then summoning its rage

Voice was put forth

A rumble of rage

Heard both south and north

"HEAR HEAR SIMPLE BEING

YOU SHOULD COWER IN FEAR

A FORCE MY SIZE

IS RARELY WISHED NEAR

"DID YOU NOT KNOW

IN MY WAVES DO EXIST

A MEANS OF DEATH

YOU COULD NEVER RESIST

"HOW DARE YOU TEMPT ME

TO DO WHAT I SHOULD

THEN SIT AND MOCK ME

AS IF YOU DON'T THINK I COULD

REMEMBER, TO ME

YOU ARE NOTHING VITAL

IF PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

I'LL JUST GO TIDAL"

At last the beast's chatter

Ceased and subsided

Its waves grew fierce

They heaved, they collided

Slowly I rose

With intention to speak

To quell the arrogance

In this watery freak

"HEAR ME NOW

PUTRID MASS OF BLUE

FOR I AM MAN

AND I WIELD POWER OVER YOU

"I AM NO FOOL

I WOULD NEVER RIDE

IN YOUR FIERCE CUTTING CURRENTS

THAT IS SURE SUICIDE

"I'M AWARE I CRAWLED FROM YOU

IN THE PAST LONG AGO

BUT THAT GIVES YOU NO RIGHT

TO CANCEL MY SHOW

"FOR I AM MAN!!

AND I HAVE LEARNED TO THINK

OF MORE WAYS TO USE YOU

THAN JUST FOR DRINK

"I'VE MASTERED YOU SINCE

MADE YOU SERVE MY NEEDS

YOU'VE HELD ALOFT MY SHIPS

AND WATERED MY SEEDS

"SO WITHDRAW, I COMMAND YOU

TO YOUR RIGHTFUL BORDER

TIS NOT A QUESTION I ASK

BUT A DIRECT ORDER

"YOU MIGHT GET IDEAS

BUT DON'T FORGET WHO I AM

IF PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

I'LL JUST BUILD A DAM"

And so the once feared and fierce

Body of liquid

Withdrew in shame

The way any limp dick would

It flowed in reverse

Of its previous path

With none of its former

Anger or wrath

Back to its home

At the foot of the beach

Now aware that supremacy

Was far out of reach

Me? I just sat

And looked around

Then I dared the sky

To come tumbling down

But that is a tale

That must nurture rhyme

As with the ridicule of Wind

And the tempting of Time

Don't think me crazy

I just find intense enjoyment

In the mindless

Precarious

Mockery of the Elements