my love twists in spirals around you...

but at the same time, moves like a wave

retracting back, then swishing about.

I never know what the undertow will be

or how long the storm will last.

each swell I think I am closer to you,

then the wave breaks and all is destroyed.

Water rushes over my ruins on shore

and the sand is trying, it seems,

to swallow my body whole.