Mercy by the Sea

March 28, 2020 | By Sharla Moody, BK ‘22. Sharla is majoring in English.

Cast them into Your divine waters, swallow the pieces whole.

Water left on rocks from last tide

freezes before it has the chance

to ebb or dry away, crystalized, 

calcified life abandoned from the body

that birthed it.

Cast from waves, the water freezes on rocks,

restrained from polluting the ocean. 

O Lord, You take away the residue

of my passions before I meet or 

bid them goodbye, become 

hardened artifacts of the former life

that spat them out. 

Cast them into Your divine waters,

swallow the pieces whole.