I wanted to sink into that sea-salt coma
I wanted to fuel the fire with my barely burning embers
I'd use my bones as tinder
if it meant I could keep you warm
You were a skyscraper
towering over me
I was a garden
too fragile to withstand your concrete touch
I fell into your shade
the sunset at my back
and though I never felt the warmth
I found comfort
in the cool breeze
I let it overtake me
the blue saline swallowed me
my rain fell in the fire
and we smoldered
waiting for a spark
to burn, and burn, and burn
I ebbed and flowed with the tides
and you rose and set with the sun
and though the earth seems to have a semblance of synergy
your music cracked
and I was deaf, floundering in the waves
I've never stopped drowning in you