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Stay with Me

  • Dec 24, 2025
  • 1 min read

Stay with me for a while, the night will close

Its doors after we enter them, the moon

Illuminates our footsteps, but suppose

We walk beside the sea singing a song

With words we do not remember, and laugh

Through our pauses, the water at our knees

With nowhere better to go, so we walk

We walk beyond the night to see the sun

The best of friends, a summer love that brings

Our hearts closer, just as the seagull brings

Fresh fish to its next with the memory

Of barnacles clinging, our hands clinging

To each other upon the same jetty.

I still dream of summer and the clanging

We heard when buoys hit the salty rock

The wind-blown waves that crashed over the sand

Our friendship safely anchored at the dock

When we set sail, each to a different land.

 
 
 

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