Heart Ache has brought me to this place

Again

Familiarity envelps me, protects me

Shelters me from the blow of another knife


  Mist envelops my skin, waves rise and ebb all around me

  Bending, I hold a crested wave in my hands, caressing tenderness
   itself

  I hold it to my heart, now throbbing with the longings of a poet
   and pains of a hopeless lover

  The depth of longing both terrifies and excties me

  Until...


   Water falls from the cracks in my fingers... the cracks in my heart

   As it blends back into a faceless ocean, all I can do is weep,

   Crawling back to familiarity to revive another drowning heart

   As tear-filled eyes gaze forlornly

   At another lost tide.