By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 28 August 2000

Save Your Wave

pebbled promises
scattered sorrows
so much seaweed between us
so much lost treasure
so much for our coral castle eternity
in Neptune's gentle forest

if you are leaving
       go
but save your wave
for I cannot pretend
that there is grace
to this parting.

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