Salt Water Nights - Ryden Oneshot
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The moon bred new Atlantic life tonight.the salt burned you right out of my eyes.and secrets we're not proud of were taken with the tide. We were all newborns with blurred vision and no sense of direction.
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes and shortness of breath.
this is why I walk to the ocean.swim with jellyfish.I may never get this chance again.
this is why if you want to kiss you should kiss.
If you want to cry you should cry, and
if you want to live you should live.
You don't have to love me. You already did. At least enough to keep me smiling from South Carolina to Virginia.it's for lovers
(orjustfriends)
-Ryan Ross, "The Myrtle Beach Poem"
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