poems for you. always for you. ✓

r e t u r n - t o - s e a

tysm for 5.2k reads and 1.2k votes!!!! i appreciate you so much, and i hope you have an amazing day <3

also, i'll be starting a new poetry collection soon since this one has been getting a little long lmao. as soon as i think of a good poem to end this with, i'll be making that new book heh (: so keep an eye out for that

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prompt: "and as the waves return to the sea, so the words give way to silence."

i've always crashed

against the shoreline

of your heart,

touching land

with sea glass fingers,

laying my tidal-wave palm

on the coarse sureness of the sand,

wanting to press

my salty lips

to your sun-warmed ones

that taste of dawn

and new beginnings

waiting to be grasped

and spun into new stories,

and soon i am

spilling my ocean thoughts

into you,

clinking words together

into a string of

gleaming, moon-white pearls,

hoping you'll wear them

like they're something

to be treasured

and kept close,

hoping that my words

retrieved from the

bleached, abandoned

sea floor

will be enough

to help me walk along

your shore,

maybe even

past the pretense

and into the mainland,

but dusk was quick

to wash over us

in somber finality,

in pink hues and passion reds

that will give way

to cool onyx and shadow:

a backdrop for the stars

to shine against,

and as my waves

return to the sea,

so the words

give way to silence

love,

mari