The Tide Between Us

I belong where you exist —

where the tide folds into itself, 

washing ashore a string of memories. 

The water hums with the thoughts you left behind, 

your faded voice caught

in the loud waves. 

I want to be the coral at the bottom

of the sea,

beneath the ocean currents, 

Anchored. 

but, alive

watching the light bend and break above me. 

I want to be the seagulls above, 

Watching the water shift and shimmer, 

circling the surface you once held. 

The wind carries your name, 

and I chase it. 

Yet, even so it drifts farther out each time. 

The sea does not answer,

my call. It only drifts me farther in,

creating a pulse that pulls and releases,

until I can’t tell where the sea ends. 

I belong where only You exist, 

where the sea feels endless,

where the silence slices through water, 

where everything moves towards you.