You touched me once,
salt on your skin.
I tasted the waves
where you had been.
I slept with you,
a night you stole.
Your soul right
into mine it bore.
I still sleep curled
to where you breathed.
Your scent- ash, storm,
some myth I grieve.
They said you marched.
They said you sailed.
And in the end,
my courage failed.
I held your name
between my thighs-
It’s all I have
to warm my nights.
My heart won’t break,
my soul won’t bruise-
But still I cannot
cut you loose.
There was no sound,
no word, no laugh-
Eroded in the
shore-side path.
Sea at my ankles.
Don’t let me drown.
In your domain,
I’ll seek my crown.
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