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That night you stumbled in (even later than me),
Both of us exhausted from our independent adventures;
You with the cracked ribs,
and me with better news than I had expected any time soon.

You and I, ever ships in the night…
but then you & I have always loved the ocean.
It is calm & passive,
Raging & turbulent,
and it is ever deep, deep, deep.

I taste the salt of your skin
and I feel more at home
than Odysseus ever did in his long-lost Ithaca.

You are my anchor,
My sunset,
My giant man-eating squid.
And I will always be your siren,
Mooring you safe on the rocks with a song.

Lull me to sleep with your sweet breath
and the warmth of your sun-kissed skin,
and we will drown each other with love.
Forever.