Virginia’s Lover

Virginia’s eyes searched the horizon’s darkening line

As she walked along the shore’s silvery edge

Stepping along carefully - methodically as if at life’s ledge

While the ocean’s thunderous waves pounded out time’s keep

And she synched each her breath to mother’s metronome;

Virginia recited Poe’s Annabel Lee poem

 

The moon darting in and out behind the brigantines; leaving her in the dark alone

To ponder the coldness of the waters below - down deep

Where her lungs fill with the sea’s blood and she tastes the brine

While imagining the dimming lights above in a magnificent view

As Virginia is slowly embraced by a lover she knew

Would keep her secrets without fault or rue