There is more than an ocean

There is more than an ocean

Stretched between us

However wide and deep it may be

I have waited

As waves have broken

Along the shoreline

Washing at my feet

Resisting the pull

Of the turning tide

Sinking ankle deep

In golden sand

Pining for an answer

To questions that were

Tossed into the wind

Only to be met by silence

As they were whisked

Into the divide

Swallowed whole

Into the extent

Of the void

Every word a blueprint

Of a life

I used to know

Carried in the belly of the beast

To gosh knows where

Held hostage

Twenty thousand leagues

Beneath the sea

Waiting to be spewed out

Onto a distant

Deserted isle

Words just cast away

Carried off

Into the wonder

More than just an ocean

Reinforcing separation

More than just a distance

Of finite measurement

Between us

But the desire to float

Into the blue

Until the transit

Is complete

Compels me to commit

These tortured words

Unto the sea

Where they might

Find safe passage

And be rinsed clean

Washed up as

Something more than flotsam

Relieved of

Old meanings

Finely beached

On the leeward side

Of stormy waters

At peace

Together

Finally.