These Raging Waters

For a good chunk of time this year, I was lost. I hid it well, I think. But I was drifting at sea. Stranded on a buoy just trying to wait out the storms. There were moments of sunshine, but they never lasted. Until I decided to swim. Dove headfirst into the waves, terrified.

Amidst the raging waters, I felt someone and he held on to me and I hesitatingly let him. As the sea slowly rocked us to shore I wrapped my arms around him. When the water started to calm they deposited us, gently, on the sand. The sun came out and dried our skin and I lay there waiting for her to disappear once again. But she didn't. She banished every cloud and warmed the sand underneath my aching body.

Then he put his hand in mine and looked at me, his eyes the color of the seas we just came from. Turning his eyes back to the sky once more he says;

"I'm right here."

I must say the sun does feel nice.