"a moving sea between us.."

“Love one another,
but make not a bond of love...
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.”
― Kahlil Gibran

there is a sea
that shifts and moves
between us

it ebbs and
flows like a living,
moving,
breathing
being that draws its
strength from
the sound of the moon
and the
silence of the
sun....

what fills the
heavy waters,
what stretches between
the shores of
our souls...

are there memories
that sound their echoes
back and forth
like sonar
voices
only we can
hear...

are there dreams filled with
the phosphorous
promise of "someday when" and
"one day soon"

memories
that swim in silence
along the
currents of the ordinary,
the day-to-day,
the
one-foot-in-front-of-the-other
moments
where
nothing changes and
still the sea
dances
singing its song of
love

and what about the
shifting sands of sorrows
felt and
shared,
the tears that fill this
ocean of hopes
we might
drown in
if we give up...

but
we
won't

there is a sea
between us
a constancy that buoys, and
crashes, and sighs
to
shape the
hardest heart, to
hone the
sharpest glass...
softening edges, and carving a
hollow place
we've fill with
tears,
and stillness,
and laughter...

a pool for
bathing
baptizing,
blessing

the
love
that
moves between
us...

a living thing...

“The breaking of a wave
cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov