The Rising Tide Poem by Kevin Patrick Brown

I peered intently into your eyes, and shivered
when I understood what I was seeing.
The depths of Love are dark and mysterious,
but shimmer with light, yet somehow they never
reveal all to our simple, clouded vision.

I tried to pull you soul into mine, but
my feeble clasp was without the strength
required to complete the arduous task, but
then I smiled as I realized, there was no need;
surely you had been part of me always?

I felt the message of the simple tides, whose
powerful pull ebbs and flows for all to feel, but
whose progress is never stopped by any
obstacle, nor by any barrier, not even by
time itself; it rolls back and forth always, my Love.

I felt peace as the waters smoothly covered
me in their healing clasp, and I sadly let go in
total surrender, accepting where I would go.
As the tide did begin to ebb, I stared intently at the
pale, washed sky and kissed your lips forever.