You are an ocean

A girl whose depths I dive to

Down to the very bottom

If it costs me my life,

If it costs me my breaths

I continue to plunge

And feel my pulse from pressures

As the weight of the water

Collapses my lungs

With air in my chest

Like gold in sunken treasure

Falling fast and silent

Sinking calm and deep

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In this ocean

Is there a bottom?

Where I can scatter

And settle with the sand

In this cool and quiet place

Forever down below

Away from land to be here

Comfortable and at peace

To call this place my home?

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Your pale skin

Glows in the moonlight

A complexion

Soft and fair

Beautiful as you lie there

With open eyes inviting me

To an ocean you don’t know is there

And so I catch you unaware

As you grab me

Vulnerable and looking

Open hearted and wondering

Asking me why I stare

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