Alluring maiden
Skirts of green foam flash and twirl
Her song draws me in
Arms of sweet salt embrace me
Silken promises whispered

My palms are getting sweaty
My heart begins to pound
I’m running down the hallway
Strange faces all around
In my hand’s a crumpled schedule
I can’t read it anyway
Where is that freaking classroom?!
The final is today!!

I stare at you
Through a small tear between dreams
and reality.

So this is where you were hiding all this time.

Immortal, after all.

I step in the shower,
You follow me in.

Clear water
Ivory skin
Blue tiles
Ebony sin

Hmm, no one is watching,
Let's do it again....

I walked past the shop and felt eyes watching me.
I stopped in my tracks and thought, “Can it be?”
From the wall hung a tiny man made of straw
With black beads for eyes and a gaping maw.
He looked at me, and I looked at him,
And without even meaning to, I stepped on in.
The shop owner saw me.  “You like him, eh?”
My head moved up and down, but my brain screamed, “No way!”
The straw man was packaged in a brown, paper bag.
I pulled out my wallet and then I paid.
I was handed my purchase and was told, “Good day.”
And I swear my bag chuckled as I walked away.

She was named after the sea
And her eyes were the color of waves crashing on a stormy day.

And yet,
There she was...

Landlocked.

Black convertible
Top down
Starry sky above.

Where am I going?
Where have I been?

The answer is one and the same:
My love.