Just a Love Poem

To the Ocean, My Love

I love you.

I love waking up with you,

hearing your breath before the world stirs.

I love spending time with you —

hours that stretch and dissolve into the shimmer of your skin.

It doesn’t matter how I feel —

sad or happy, broken or blooming —

you always treat me with respect.

If I am crippled or running,

you’re there to fold your love around me,

to cradle, to steady, to remind me that I still belong.

You are never the same —

every day new,

different, beautifully surprising.

Some people walk over you,

and I wonder — do they even notice?

Do they see what you’re willing to share,

the secrets, the songs, the endless giving?

I love you. I always will.

No matter where I am in the world,

I can find you —

in the wind, in the salt, in the rhythm of my own heartbeat.

Ocean, you are my life.