harbor (the conversation)
--Nick Flynn 

If this bowl is always empty 

If it breathes if it’s lung 

If a horse can rise from the ashes

Saul was a sailor on the boat to Damascus 

He did not know what he was 

Paul turned to a voice it rose up from the waves 

It chained his boat to the darkness

A man finds ash & he makes it a man 

A horse finds ash in a horse 

It lifts us it holds us it breaks us again 

Scatter him into the harbor

Animated video for the last verse available at The Washington Post.