(part 4)
"Look down"
Whispered the lovers traipsing along the dock,
Hands tied together like frayed seafarers' knots.
Their open shirts were sails,
Flapping viciously against their skin,
Guiding them to the edge.
"Look down" echoed the sea,
And so they did.
Beneath them was the sky,
Galaxies painted on the ocean's surface
With love-struck strokes.
"Come with me" said the first lover,
With windswept hair like seaweed,
"Come dance in the cosmos with me.
Come dance and sing and love with me,
For the rest of eternity."
With hands tied together like frayed seafarers' knots
The lovers leapt into the star-stained sea,
Where they danced and kissed and dived to the bottom
Till their hearts and lungs burst.
The sea, taking pity on the two
Swept them out with a tear-seasoned current
Away from the shore
Which bore no goodness for a love condemned.
Hands tied together like frayed seafarers' knots,
The pair drifted toward the horizon.
Blue-hued faces painted with a smattering of galaxies.
YOU ARE READING
The Astronaut and the Sea
Poetry"The astronaut loved the sea But dreamt of the sky So she spread her wings And flew to the stars That ignited her nights And her heart. The sea waited, Stoic and sound, But the start-struck astronaut Is nowhere to be found."
