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leave me your wake

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i keep dreaming of her and the ocean.

and how her legs blend into the sand and begin to wash away, and how the water pools in the dent of her collarbone and trickles down her neck and flows back to the sea. how everything returns and nothing can stay.

and my eyes sting because i'm crying saltwater because the moon won't let me keep her. he keeps reaching out, ripping at her skin. pulling her in and washing her back for only a short while, white and cold, but the constellations on her back and shoulders are still bright.

she keeps reaching up,
grasping at something beyond her skeleton fingers.
'i can't remember what it's called.' her voice is vacant. 'but...it's beautiful isn't, it?'
it's dark and vast, and the ocean can't compare.

she slips from the shore and into the waves, her hazel eyes blinking dully as she watches wish-worthy light break through the steel above her head and fall to the surface, illuminating the ocean floor and awaken the whales who moan with envy that they can't escape.

and it's not fair that i can't follow her to where she's going. to where the sun forgets to rise and where tidal waves are just ripples lapping at her feet.
i wish i was an ocean, maybe then i'd get to see you again.
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Avari-xo-Obsidian's avatar
I love this. Just sayin =3