Serene Dreams Ii. Embrace Me

You close your eyes and you think
Thoughts, wishes, questions

It's cold, you shiver a bit
And you focus
And you begin to get this strange sensation
Like your, your body is floating
You feel these feelings envelop you like a warm bath
Your body floating atop a heated ocean and gentle waves

Peace finds your mind
With the familiar smells of salt and brine
The sound of seagulls in the air around you
Broken surf crashing on a shore somewhere
You open your eyes
And as opposed to the mountainside
You're looking up at a clear blue sky
Not a cloud around

You try and focus
Just blue, impossibly wide blue
And you see something, is it a
Is it a cloud or?
It's a face
The faint tracings of a face, eyes, and a nose
A mouth, but on a scale that consumes
The entire blue sky above you

It's almost unsettling
But it's soft, maternal
It's like a trick of the eye, but there it is
And you, you swear you see it smile
These feelings wash into your mind, your heart
Emotions and images conveying ideas
And communication wordlessly, as if to say

You have been lost
Caught in a dark current
An undertow
These depths seed you with an alien wound
Too deep to heal
And leave your mind a torrent
Fear, love, pursuit for self-worth

You found my gaze through chance
Through deed, through company
These waters are your home
And always have been
These waters are me
And I am them

I am the lands that rise from them
I am the trees that bind them
I am the beasts that keep them
This seed of darkness
This seed I cannot heal
But I can help you carry the burden
I can free you from the fiend that feeds
If you would but protect all that is me

Will you walk my lands, swim my shores
And guide my children as one of my own?
Yes, yes I would
Then embrace me
My boon is yours
And it is our nature to adapt
Come