Ocean

I wanted to add a preface to this poem to say that out of all the hundreds of poems that I've written this still remains my favorite poem of them all. ☺️

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I am a glass of water

she sees right through me

yet nothing to her is

crystal clear.

I thought she knew me

but all my depths are

shallow to her, I fear.

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I drown

in my own feelings

gasping her name,

but she cannot hear

that it's her

I'm calling out for

all the same.

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I ache from words

forced to stay unspoken

until the space between us

spans out of our control,

until who we were is lost

between the gaps and gasps

of feelings she was too

naive to see and I was

too afraid to speak of.

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What will it take

to make her see me?

to make her feel my love?

to finally become her ocean?

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