Eyes blue like the Atlantic,
Your silence is a storm I sailed through.
Foam-white secrets sink in the night—
I drown in the calm after you.
Moonlight drips from your collarbone,
I breathe it like oxygen laced with regret.
Waves repeat your name in slow chords,
Each breaker a promise I never kept.
Hold me till the tide forgets the shore,
Till salt erases the ink of every goodbye.
If I sink, let your color be the last
Thing this ruined sailor sees in his sky.