impermanent as the sea / impermanent as you & me

is nothing permanent? nothing secure?
the query is a quest; I ache inside.
as I watch the ocean ebb and flow
(and remember all the nights
i had to watch him go...)

new love fades and passion abates
(we've all watched love transform to hate)

a child's innocence can dissipate...
turn into cuts upon her arm
and a finger in her throat

-letters to a lover can become
empty words the heart once wrote-

it all seems so malleable
so transient and bittersweet

(but i'm laying in the sun,
so perhaps it's just the heat)

is permanence a figment
of my over-hopeful heart?

the idea that someone will adore me
each day of my life
(not become sick with me or too quick with me)

and make love to me each night.

sweet constancy sweet constancy
how i wish to hold you tight

my fear of the future
is only matched by the notion
that i could be someone's tide

and he would be my ocean.

Reviews

[Trisha Clark]

Lines like this :

(we've all watched love transform to hate)

and this:

that i could be someone's tide

and he would be my ocean.

are what keep us all coming back. i love your style, and that you're not afraid of semi-colons and such. :) glad you stopped in to write today. :)

hope the rest of Aruba is great!

[Rebirth And Introspecti..]

beautiful, I love how you note that your present circumstances mold your outlook. That's a great thing to know. This piece is filled with an almost whimsical melancholy... I only wish that there were a better phrase for it.

[Cdnsurfer]

Oh I loved those last lines!

my fear of the future
is only matched by the notion
that i could be someone's tide

and he would be my ocean.

Now that's powerful stuff. Yes, constancy lies only in the stars and the ocean for mere mortals, for the only certainty to mortals is the certainty of change. Nothing remains the same. The trick is to change and grow "with" another, though the vines twist and turn away. It's much more difficult but much more rewarding to see "change" in others, growth in others. However, frustrating when you change and the other does not. All things change -- embrace it.

Cheers! Rob

[Alicia]

This is beauty and perfection captured in a bottle, mixed with a bit of truth and a touch of daydream. Really, it is lovely. I adore each and every word in this poem and the way they work together to create a bounty of truths and wishful thinking that almost every human being can relate to. I hope you are having fun in the sun (and hopefully are writing some more fabulous poetry while you're at it ;]). I love this.

[Kris Merrells]

The impermanence makes one hold on that much tighter.

"-letters to a lover can become
empty words the heart once wrote-"

But at the time, how much they meant! How important and true! Moment to moment is often the best that we can do.

I have missed your words. Thank you for sharing them again.

[Sarah Williams]

Powerful piece! There are so many truths in this write, so many deep and beautiful, painful and poignant images. I too love your style!

*hugs*
Sarah