ESTUARY (a proposal)
Meet me where the river meets the sea
Where my briny waves commingle
With your purity
Let your rolling river spill
Forever into me
Meet me where the river meets the sea
Sooth me with your supple sense of grace
Dilute for me my salty waters
With infinite embrace
Fall completely in my arms
In this sacred place
Sooth me with your supple sense of grace
Warm me with your waters from afar
Carried down from lakes and streams
Many though there are
You thank each tiny tributary
As though they all were stars
Warm me with your waters from afar
Calm me with your gently flowing tide
Save me from my roiling soul
With your river wide
Help my breakers to collapse
And be my only bride
Calm me with your gently flowing tide
(c) 2020 Chris Elliot
“Estuary (a proposal)” is one of five honorable mention poems from this year’s October Project Poetry Contest. Chris is a writer and musician living in Los Angeles, blessed with an embarrassment of quarantine riches.
