incandescent a day on the beach | Page 9

I used to keep love at an arm's

length away, near enough,

But not too close that I could

Drown in it and I guess

This is what happens

when the people

You've loved with

your everything

loved you

only by halves,

which tends to hurt

More than never loving you

At all. But then

there was you,

With your kind eyes,

And your warm smile,

And your touch that sparked a fire

In me and left me breathless.

You are what the ocean looks

Like when the sun is up,

Glistening with so much light

that I wouldn't mind

drowning in you at all.

Soyen Encondo

HALVES AND OCEANS

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