Siren
On the other side of my eyelids
an ocean
dark as envy
fathomless as desire
I slip, each night
into that expanse
leaving the ten thousand
things of the dry world
in the sand
my directed thoughts
untether,
stretching with phosphorescence and meaning,
the hours sing of lost nouns
in a current of adjectives
restless leviathans
moving in the deep
sometimes in the kelp forest
I see you
seeing me
in a hundred different boats
we sit together
the daystarlights overhead
highlighting your eyes
as they look into mine
(into yours)
Into the depths of my emotions
you laugh
and spark your crooked grin
my ocean fills with longing.
nightly, I swim after your face
moving in the waves
my fingers
always on the cusp of yours
your mouth moving
offering nonsense
and profundity in it's foamy wake
your warm proximity
always present
always distant
as I wake
thirsty
in the sand
of a dry world.
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