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FireSister — Love Letters
Published: 2010-09-09 09:26:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 80; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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Well, here we are again,Perched out by the ocean side,
Calling forth some silence within ourselves,
As the sea often does.
My fingers curl round a wooden shaft,
Words running through my head.
Unbidden the shaft drags along the ground,
Addressed to who else but you.
So far away, in mind and body, as you are
I linger here,
Maybe waiting,
Maybe letting go,
Writing in the sand.
It's been so long, I realize,
Too long, maybe,
Or perhaps not long enough.
With every push and pull of those waves,
With every mouthful of salty air,
Like the water leading back
To the ocean from the shore,
I am led back to you.
These waves aren't calming my fires,
Aren't stopping my heartbeat,
But perhaps still offer comfort,
As they reach up to my words in the ground before them.
I look down at these words,
In saddened bewilderment,
Seeing a letter of love inscribed.
No matter how far,
I guess I still burn,
If only for you;
Writing these love letters in the sand.
Funny, how we all seem to be chosen,
For one reason or another.
Why I was chosen for you,
I guess we'll never know.
But I suppose it doesn't matter why,
Says me as the waves come to take my words away.
They wash away by the water, taken from the soil;
I watch with a blank and thoughtful face,
Questioning the motive of the ocean.
What does this mean, wonders I,
So many reasons why.
Maybe they take them to you where you are across the water,
So far away,
To deliver a heart that has long been yours,
Where I could not.
Or maybe they simply wash them away,
To be forgotten,
Lost my heart is to the sea,
A love long dead.
But as the tides come and take my love away,
To you or to oblivion,
I find it still harder to stop writing here,
My love letters in the sand.
