They come in waves Each one receding And a fresh breaker each meeting To lap against the seaboard Phases, individually different Like seasons changing They bring me reasons To wish for steadier climates Markedly too many cloudy days And frosty iced beaches Frigid and barren sand dunes Glossy with the sheen of nothingness Phases, always redundantly taunting It cycles with the moon As the tide rises Deluge swelling to a riptide A clumsy waltz, gravity and satellite Fuller and more violent With each movement Threatens to deepen any second The further it pulls The farther the tendency creeps in Shoreline expanding, threshold capsizing Each pulse a tender beat I walk barefeet in the shallows Timid to dare to wade too deep Past the places I'm comfortable enough With the feeling water against my exposed skin And from here I can find stones to skip Why would I trade leisure for treading The sunset on the horizon looks far more beautiful when You can stand to see it Phases, they help me remember I'm breathing Because how can you bear to be alive If you're not feeling You're not truly living