I was never a bashful stream
Falling coyly into your dream
Zigzagging blithely around your mind
Just for fun.
I was an ocean
Bursting from a yearning chest
My breast heavy from passion
I wanted to share
My belly aching from laughter
Of children we’ve planned to have
And poetry.
You were a sailor
Jason in search of his Golden Fleece
In love with the freedom of an open sea
Possessed by the ocean’s fierceness and depth
You rode with delight on my ecstatic waves
In spite of leviathans lurking from darkness
You were dauntless.
But you didn’t expect
To find sea monsters inside your own head
You didn’t know
Love dives deep to the bottom of your soul
You did not understand
Closing eyes to your waves means death.
You should’ve learned how to sail
Before embarking on a quest.
In the end
It wasn’t my storm
That sank your boat
But yours.
In the end
You were never the man
You claimed to be
But just a boy.