<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The Sea In You<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">When I lie next to you under the moon, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">I do not know who I have become unless </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">I move closer to you, obeying the give and take</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">of the earth as it breathes the slender length</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">of your body, so that in breathing with the tide </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">that breathes in you, and moving with you </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">as you come and go, and following you, half in light </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and half in dark, I feel the first firm edge of my floating palm </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">touch and then trace the pale light of your shoulder </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to the faint, moon-lit shadow of your smooth cheek, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and drawing my finger through the pearl water of your skin,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">I sense the breath on your lips touch and then warm</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">the finest, furthest, most unknown edge of my sense of self,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so that I come to you under the moon as if I had </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">swum under the deepest arch of the ocean, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to find you living where no one could possibly could live,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and to feel you breathing, where no one could </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">possibly breathe, and I touch your skin as I would</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">touch a pale whispering spirit of the tides that my arms </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">try to hold with the wrong kind of strength and my lips </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">try to speak with the wrong kind of love and I follow</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">you through the ocean night listening for your breath</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">in my helpless calling to love you as I should, and I lie </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">next to you in your sleep as I would next to the sea,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">overwhelmed by the rest that arrives in me and by the weight </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">that is taken from me and what, by morning, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">is left on the shore of my waking joy.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- David Whyte</div></div></div></div></body></html>