Tranquility LQ12 (Cantos for Lemuel Gulliver LXXXVIII)

Your voice is a wave rolling crashing
bearing me forward, pulling me back,
breaking and then I am underwater.

It’s not possible to swim against.
Surf upon it or float staring at
the sun, or sink into it to find

what life it hides. I can hear you say
I’m drowning. Oh let me lie, full fathom
under your tongue on the soft sea floor.