I taste the salt, tears dripping slowly down your skin,
Let me hold you, insecure, a world that rises a within
On the lips of a Brine, water thickened a wholly mine
Laps a simple most elemental truth--communal wine,
After a morning sin, what remains--binds us we cling
Brined in the keeping, preserved immersed they sing,
Endured in the altered, held over for another around,
Moments don’t just pass thru you--full to fully found
They soak in you, live in lines I still feel you all along
After the surface in you dries the waves leave behind
I see you swim in the ware as the waters in you grind
O the endless of a sea, overwhelming, slips it in slow,
Gently, soft in a seasoning over the waters down low,
Linger, tasted, let my salt leave a mark on you a trace
On the legs of destiny let me show you kiss your face
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM UTC
I taste the salt, tears dripping slowly down your skin,
Let me hold you, insecure, a world that rises a within
On the lips of a Brine, water thickened a wholly mine
Laps a simple most elemental truth--communal wine,
After a morning sin, what remains--binds us we cling
Brined in the keeping, preserved immersed they sing,
Endured in the altered, held over for another around,
Moments don’t just pass thru you--full to fully found
They soak in you, live in lines I still feel you all along
After the surface in you dries the waves leave behind
I see you swim in the ware as the waters in you grind
O the endless of a sea, overwhelming, slips it in slow,
Gently, soft in a seasoning over the waters down low,
Linger, tasted, let my salt leave a mark on you a trace
On the legs of destiny let me show you kiss your face
That are many moments in life that mark us in the brine and leave a trace on us, and marks the lines in us where we have been, and in those scars, those squiggly lines of fate, I see the stars melt to hold in your face all an ocean as of late.
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