You had the makings of an ocean
And yet, failed to sleep
Large enough, deep enough,
You became a lake instead.
You watched the passings of the sky
In romances and flings
You dreamt you were the fragmented side of the moon,
And he, the rays of the sun.
Your hair nestled trees and moss
That bred birds-of-paradise and moths
Your body was of wood-bark that tangled with grass
Your eyes, he said, were the sea's depths-dark glass
But the sun found another sea to gaze upon
And his heart ascended-to parts unknown.
The lake, now swollen with tears,
Fled through fields and overran the earth to be-
One.
And yet, failed to sleep
Large enough, deep enough,
You became a lake instead.
You watched the passings of the sky
In romances and flings
You dreamt you were the fragmented side of the moon,
And he, the rays of the sun.
Your hair nestled trees and moss
That bred birds-of-paradise and moths
Your body was of wood-bark that tangled with grass
Your eyes, he said, were the sea's depths-dark glass
But the sun found another sea to gaze upon
And his heart ascended-to parts unknown.
The lake, now swollen with tears,
Fled through fields and overran the earth to be-
One.
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