Foolish Devotion

when I realized you were the sea,

I shattered my boat.

piece by piece,

wood by wood,

just to feel the coldness

that you harbored.

I used to avoid the sea,

thinking I would drown and disappear.

but now,

I will sink myself

deeper and deeper

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just to be one with you.

even if you can’t feel my love,

I’d always be with you,

beneath every wave,

between every tide,

and in every silence.

even so,

even when you turned away from me,

and your silence

seeping into every bone.

even when it made a crack

in my already tattered heart.

I will bask in your embrace

until I no longer could.