the sea never stops

For MargaretGypsy

— where the horizon didn’t hold you.

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the sea never stops

it just
arrives

in smaller ways

we rest

where it
almost ends

and wait
as the hum
sends waves

without knowing

what part of us
has already
gone

blue finds you
before you look for it

held
between distance
and breath

your toes
first

as if the water
might remember you

the cold
not taking

just asking

then ankles

then the slow
unfolding

of something in you
loosening

like it always does
here

behind it

the mountains
not moving

but never asking you
to stay

the tide
not pulling

just
holding

long enough

for your body
to soften

into it

you used to think
peace

meant stopping

but the sea
never asked that

so you learned

to stay
just long enough

to feel it

and then

to go

without losing
anything

the sea never stops

and neither do you

just
arriving

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