Our True Self is a sea unfathomable by the salt of human tears or the wrecks of rationality, ever impermanent with the waves of cosmic evolution. When Shelley asks “Who shall put forth on thee?” we too ask “Who?” to inquire into the nature of our being.
Here’s a new reading of the poem “Time” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, uploaded today to YouTube.
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable Sea?
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