It has occurred to me that our prayer
has the form of the waves of the ocean.
The water stands still for a while
and then it gathers and spills.
We stand still to recite the Qur’an,
And spill over into a bow.
Then there is the most complete spilling over into sajdah.
The ocean’s fingers run up on the sand
as it splashes its head down again and again.
Again the water pulls back and sits,
and again the water fingers slide up the sand.
There are swells that do not break into sajdah,
that raise what is on the water up.
So, is this the prayer of the ocean?
Do I pray as well?
O God, let my prayer be an ocean,
an ocean to drown in You!
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