The Split
Yesterday we walked
together
Exploring craggy rock pools
Tasting salt in breath
Hand in hand
Walking bare foot on
white sand
Ankle deep in pulsing
water
All was
Until we looked at
the horizon
The line between
dry and wet
sea and sky
The undefinable split
split us
we fell apart
The sea
The air
The magic
undefinable line
The holds all
could not hold us
We landed
A shell split
on beach
The sea washed over us
We wrestled
mediated
prayed
That spirit of
sea, air, magic
bind us
It couldn’t
Darkness came
We ceased to try
Accepted fate
The sea subsided
To reveal a perfect
shell
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