To Night’s Ocean

What would it entail
To write for no one,
To address no one,
No god or human?
What would be the point,

The use, the meaning
To the composer,
Who would be human
And too well aware
Of humans and gods?

Deliberately
To turn toward what
Is sure not to see
Sure not to listen,
To something immune

To any preaching
Or pleas beseeching
It to understand,
Immune to meaning—
Would that be daring

Or only absurd?
It would be the same
As all addresses,
All poems ever were,
Waves sinking in waves.