You will not tame this sea
either by humility or rapture.
But you can laugh
in its face.
Laughter
was invented by those
who live briefly
as a burst of laughter.
The eternal sea
will never learn to laugh.
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Comments1WOW, I REMEMBER READING THIS POEM WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, AND IT STILL SPEAKS TO ME! THE POWER OF LAUGHTER AND SEA!