Midnight oceans

Tapped my shoulder as she passed.
I turned to face a girl
Soft eyes, a gown of midnight silk
She waited for my world to unfurl

“Are you not afraid you’ll drown?”
With salt on my skin and sorrow in my gown.
“Afraid of what?” I replied
Not meaning to let her down.

The ocean that brings life in its tides?
Or the waves that sweep my fears aside?
The hush that sings inside my chest,
A lullaby dressed in water’s best?

There’s peace in the pull of the sea,
Even as it dares to swallow me.
It shivers my soul to the bone
But somehow, I’ve never felt less alone.

She watched me breathe in the air,
Hair dancing like seaweed in the breeze.
“You find calm in chaos,” she said,
“As if danger puts you at ease.”

I didn’t answer.
Just leaned a little closer to the edge
Where silence speaks,
And the waves don’t judge.