“The Sea”

Call me koi.

Color me comfortable enough 

To show my shyness 

Showering in shadows that share reflections

of past lives and deep depths.

Call me by your name.

Just call me.

And I'll say 'hello'

And you'll say 'hi' in my mind

And I'll meet us...

In the middle...

'Tween sky and sea

With a dying hope that you'll catch me.

I'll leap with faith 

Whilst in the midst of frantic, repetitious shallow breaths.

Praying that you'll take them away

As you take me in.

Tell me what heaven is and 

I promise 

I'll believe it.

Why?

Because this? Ain't breathin.'

Just...drowning, a...

Slow-sinking feeling...

Until to reel me in.

Everyone else that isn't us tends to ask  

In escalating, voiceless stares which have them traveling without moving

...their mouths...

"How?"

"How?" they say.

"How did he and her make this and them?"

"How have they made it all stay...this long?"

"Together," they mean.

"For what seems like Ever," they mean.

And "where do they come from?"

"Can't be earth," they swear.

And they'd be right.

Nowhere on earth does love like this exist

That is if seldom ever seen.

And they'd be right.

For in my mania, 

Her eyelashes 

Intermittently flash day and night,

And I live and die

Within the twinklings

Every...other...blinking.

You can now say you know why I kiss her blindly.

She's the dream I'm always thinking.

Somehow, she seems to always read my mind.

She...is you.

And I am him.

And I am you.

And you...are me.

The hook

The line

The sinker

The fish...

...and the sea.