

The truth is, I do love you

It has never been a choice for me

I simply know no other way than this

It is constant as the ocean

Sometimes it is rolling storms, and crashing waves

Sometimes it is the light that plays on shallow rock pools

It is always different, always present

I move to your beauty

the way the tides move to the moon

I dance to your rhythms

Always wanting you,

Never quite reaching you

I want to kiss you

where the breaking waves kiss the shore

I want to touch your boundaries

and trace the edges of your coastline

So that I may know your shape

If you venture to plunge beneath my surface

I will gladly offer you my treasures

Let me show you the invertebrate beauty of coral polyps

Anemones opening softly, like flowers

Let me indulge you with blooms of pulsating jellyfish

I have taken the pieces of gravel that cut into my flesh

and smoothed them into pearls

I have secret depths that are spiraled like seashells.

Come with me

Submerge me in infinite kelp-forest greens

and let me permeate you with oceanic blue shades of wonder

Lets surrender to these currents

and let the secret paths to pleasure flow through us

Hold my hand and let us dive into unknown depths together

Lets close our eyes and breathe in the sensation

of pure white foam on the surface

Come with me