the sea between us cannot drown
the weight of the years without you
regret is a current, a tide,
that drags my every step away

from you, your living plot beneath
the vast sea, why can’t I sink down
the fathoms I fathom in sleep
to hold your hand, to stay and stay

until we both wake, side by side,
on the far shore of time and death,
where just fronds and fruits feel our blades
where grief’s the only thing we slay

O sea between us, watery gown,
rend, end, and me, to you, convey