Free verse, Love, sea

A Gift From The Sea

Leah Chrestien 
Our love is like the ebbing tide
 temperamental and tumultuous
rising and retreating in rage and rhythm.  

Some days, it recedes far from the shore
leaving traces of splintered shells and pebbles 

revealing all that is broken and beautiful
on the wet golden sand kissed by the sun.

Then the tide comes gushing in
effortless and unrestrained

removing all shattered imperfections

gifting a bright coral -  ruby red and glinting
born from unbridled passion and forged 
by harsh elements of the deep sea core;

precious and indestructible.
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I'm a data scientist currently working for IDC and living in Prague. In my free time, I enjoy travelling, photography, hiking, theatre and literature.

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