Conversations with the Sea

Recently

I watched the sea

grow turbulent again

I held her close

and asked her to

tell me how she has been

The sea replied

"sometimes I feel

like I might overflow"

She didn't need

to share much more

I sighed and said, "I know"

Meditation on Love

love

holds hands with loss

and yet

for some reason

we return to love

we reach for it

time and time again

we sign the contract

take the oath

whisper those three words to strangers

we lean in

while knowing fully that loving someone

puts the heart in a precarious position

life is temporary

loss is inevitable

what makes us whole

can break us into a million pieces

but we know that from the start

we see it

we dread it

we accept it

then choose to love anyway

Life + Love

we are like flowers

growing until we die

each beautiful hello

knows a heartbreaking goodbye

this world holds many lies

but one thing is always true

the only life worth living

is one dying next to you