Yesterday's Poetry
For Stephen
| You lover of the sea, you fiery element that burns in water, come, give yourself to me for a tide or two and let me be your ocean. You have only known the froth and foam that I have shown shore dwellers. Now, enter me and sink below my surface. Come and live in my secret liquid places. I will give you womb breath and moon broth, nourish you with juices that were old when the continents were new. You will be moved, in my embrace, to unimagined intimacy. I will trace moist kisses all along your trembling skin and penetrate your pores. I shall come in to you entirely. You will forget your boundaries and be, if you wish, inseparable from me. I will show you unity, for I was one with all myself before the solid masses had begun their lonely journeys into isolation, and I know oneness still. You shall see my wonders. If you will, Nereides and Neptune shall wait upon you. Mermaids shall come in chariots porpoise-drawn. You shall hear their songs that echo through my deeps and course along my currents, past coral palaces. You shall flow in me and with me. And, when you must go, I will not refuse you. I will never lose you. You may take your flame back to the air but I will still be with you, even there. Your body will remember. It will recognize, within, the part of you that I have always been. |
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