When You're Here

PoeticallyYours 1986 (Connecticut)



Waves crashing, the tide is high but I don't move because on the other side of the ocean I see you.
How is it that you're so close but I can't reach you?
A distance sound, is that your heart calling for me, is it your soul searching for me?
Even through the tears, I can see your face, your dark eyes forever consuming me.
Before I knew it, I was under water, no longer able to see the surface.
Then I came up, gasping for air, looking, searching, waves still crashing, tide is high, I can't move because on the other side of the ocean I find you.

About this poem

This poem is about a love lost. The hurt and uncertainty that comes with that lost and then the return of that love.

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Written on May 24, 2021

Submitted by PoeticallyYours on February 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCA
Characters 550
Words 114
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

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