From the book 'Realization'--excerpts from poem titled "I"

Once I was the sea,
With waters blue and deep;
Life in forms so varied,
In me a home did seek.
                Great freedom I possessed
                To change my fluid form;
                It was from my waters that
                The floating clouds were born.
And I could sense and feel,
Much more than you can guess;
To make myself understood,
My waves rose more or less......