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it was the shudder of remembrance, the awakening of visceral feelings.
it was the goosebumps racing across arms and legs as lips brushed and nosed bumped.
it was in the tears that were shed after leaving and it was in the sobs as shirts were grabbed and arms flung across shoulders and held onto tightly.
it was in the unspoken moments; meeting her eyes in the bathroom mirror and smiling that soft smile that only she knew was my real one. it was the way our hands found themselves hopelessly intertwined and the way she seemed to lean into me and me into her.

the soft sound of waves lapping the sand was what i felt when i was with her.
we would watch as the ocean offered her love to the earth again and again only to be sent back time after time and on nights like tonight, she would sob into my chest and tell me how unfair all of it is.
and i whisper calming words and stroke her hair because i know it could be no other way.

every time i leave it feels like my heart is breaking. every time i leave i don't know if i'll ever see her face again, see the way her eyes crinkle when she laughs or hear her humming to herself as she writes. i don't know if i'll be able to hold her close and look into eyes just a few shades lighter than my own and whisper 'i love you's' against her lips.

i am a solider. i fight to keep her safe. for her alone i would die.

and for her alone, i have.

now i kiss her softly when she sleeps knowing she won't be able to feel it anymore.

i watch over her.

i am the ocean, and she is my shore.

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it was the shudder of remembrance, the awakening of visceral feelings.
it was the goosebumps racing across arms and legs as lips brushed and nosed bumped.
it was in the tears that were shed after leaving and it was in the sobs as shirts were grabbed and arms flung across shoulders and held onto tightly.
it was in the unspoken moments; meeting her eyes in the bathroom mirror and smiling that soft smile that only she knew was my real one. it was the way our hands found themselves hopelessly intertwined and the way she seemed to lean into me and me into her.

the soft sound of waves lapping the sand was what i felt when i was with her.
we would watch as the ocean offered her love to the earth again and again only to be sent back time after time and on nights like tonight, she would sob into my chest and tell me how unfair all of it is.
and i whisper calming words and stroke her hair because i know it could be no other way.

every time i leave it feels like my heart is breaking. every time i leave i don't know if i'll ever see her face again, see the way her eyes crinkle when she laughs or hear her humming to herself as she writes. i don't know if i'll be able to hold her close and look into eyes just a few shades lighter than my own and whisper 'i love you's' against her lips.

i am a solider. i fight to keep her safe. for her alone i would die.

and for her alone, i have.

now i kiss her softly when she sleeps knowing she won't be able to feel it anymore.

i watch over her.

i am the ocean, and she is my shore.