You came in like a whale
Mapless, I didn’t know where you’d been or where you were headed
Your eyes held the treasures you’d seen and the mermaids you’d befriended
From first sight, you were all I could see- you filled my eyes until they overflowed
I felt so fortunate to behold you, if only for a moment
Your appearance above the surface seemed to be for me alone
I blinked and you crashed back into the depths, upsetting my little boat
The commotion stirred by your momentum smashed me to pieces
I’m still picking them up
You deftly moved on to a far away ocean, perhaps without knowing the wreckage left in your wake
Perhaps you never saw me
Yet my love for you remains deeper than the sea
I wait and watch the horizon, hoping to the moon that the tides will bring you back to me
Though you are not mine to have
Only in my heart could I contain something so much larger than myself
Sage Burner Poetry 