Conjured Memory
The ocean outweighs the land
yet earth offers heavier substance
water no matter how vast
no matter how deep
like your love
evades my grip
So tread I must upon murky shores
my feet entwined among sea grass
a messy but solid way
surefooted, I am not, but each fall ends
The descent from you does not
I go nowhere
yet in stillness, plummet faster
Feet are earthbound
but a mind may reach beyond
aided by senses
that need no touch
I watch for you …
upon the wave-crests
or emerging from deep currents
you ignore the pull of the moon
shirk-off the insistence of the tides
I listen for you …
only an indecipherable message is delivered
upon the fickle breath
of a mercurial
absent-minded zephyr
I smell you in the sea-breeze
only a memory of what you no longer are
Taste …
a remembrance preserved
in the dried remnants of a prickly brine
If only my mind could throw off time
my body supersede its senses
then I might once again swim in your depths
with smooth and sure strokes
conjure what I struggle to remember
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The digital art pieces are a composites of photos found in the public domain or my own work.
- https://www.pexels.com/photo/sea-clouds-waves-blue-sky-96377/
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memories,by_Emil_Fuchs(bronze).jpg
- https://pxhere.com/en/photo/611974
Resulting works and Conjured Memory are copyright Pryde Foltz
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