Endless Ocean
An endless ocean,
Spanning eternity,
Still and dreamy,
Crystalline in the darkness,
Yet rushing,
Exploding
In slow motion
Ever outward
At unimaginable speeds.
Towards the inevitable,
Creating
Unending variety
Of transmuting
Wonders;
Encapsulating
All the dreams and wishes;
The hopes and fears,
That have ever been
Or ever will be.
For a fleeting moment
We are swept
Along
In its undulating tides
Contributing
All we are.
Opher – 10.12.2022
We are voyagers on a ship that is a lump of rock as it dreamily speeds through an endless journey across a fathomless void.
This sea has no shores.
This ship has no destination.
This ocean has no waters.
The reality is totally at odds to the impression.
What appears serene is really an unimaginable fury.
What appears to move so slowly we cannot see it change, is speeding at a rate we cannot even imagine.
It presents us with a never-ending stream of wonders.
Sit back and enjoy the trip.
Opher's World 
I was looking up the age of the oceans – they’re about as old as earth itself. A mouthful of seawater is a gobfull of 4 billion years old water to some extent.
Tastes like it too!! I thought the theory was that all that water was brought in by asteroids crashing into the nascent planet? It could be a gob full of 5 billion year old space!
Bit from here, bit from there. Still damned old stuff.
I used to joke we were drinking dinosaur piss.
We almost certainly are Michael.