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    The poem describes the author's experience staring into the vast and turbulent ocean, which chills his soul to the bone and causes his conscience to tilt and keel as the waves crash. The ocean represents humanity's futile search for divine truth and knowledge, which will only lead to despair in the end. The waves deliver a hellish sermon unlike the mysterious stars and sky, as the ocean rips imagination asunder and is a bottomless abyss of the unknown. The author warns not to stare into the ocean for too long or get too close, as it will lure you in with its song.

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    The poem describes the author's experience staring into the vast and turbulent ocean, which chills his soul to the bone and causes his conscience to tilt and keel as the waves crash. The ocean represents humanity's futile search for divine truth and knowledge, which will only lead to despair in the end. The waves deliver a hellish sermon unlike the mysterious stars and sky, as the ocean rips imagination asunder and is a bottomless abyss of the unknown. The author warns not to stare into the ocean for too long or get too close, as it will lure you in with its song.

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    The poem describes the author's experience staring into the vast and turbulent ocean, which chills his soul to the bone and causes his conscience to tilt and keel as the waves crash. The ocean represents humanity's futile search for divine truth and knowledge, which will only lead to despair in the end. The waves deliver a hellish sermon unlike the mysterious stars and sky, as the ocean rips imagination asunder and is a bottomless abyss of the unknown. The author warns not to stare into the ocean for too long or get too close, as it will lure you in with its song.

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    With the Sea and Sand Alone

    By: Tejas Ranade

    2007

    With the Sea and sand alone


    The Ocean chills my soul and bone
    It splashes forth, it splashes hither,
    Tormented by tumultuous weather

    I stare, unmoving, in its depth


    And forming a gaping rift.
    It travels through my spine, and I feel
    My conscience tilt forward and keel.

    The Ocean represents but nil,


    Humanity traveling an upward hill
    Our futile search of divine truth
    And slaking man’s thirst to its root

    But what is it except deception?


    Of our knowledge, only inception.
    The Sea is an illusion, swift and fair
    But at its end only despair.
    Unlike the stars dotting heaven
    The waves deliver their hellish sermon.
    Unlike the sky, mysterious wonder
    It rips in our imagination asunder.

    Beware and do not stare too long


    Stay away from its luring song,
    For it is a bottomless abyss;
    A dark crevice, and the unknown’s kiss.

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