I don't Know

Ever since I was old enough

to think consciously

I have felt

a tugging in my chest

like a string

as playful and free as the dolphins

as deep and mournful as the call of the whales

as defined and pointed as the fin of a shark

as bouncing and powerful as the ocean waves

as calm as a tidal pool, untouched by the tide

I’ve wondered what it could be

Many times in my life.

Then as I enter

the white capped waves

and the feeling

eases away

like the feeling

of pain

oozing away to

form complete

bliss

I realize that the feeling

has been,

all

along,

the call

of the

ocean