When first I met you,
You were as the sea,
One vast, seemingly unvarying region.
But then, little by little,
Your laughter, your touch,
Your smiles, your words and actions,
Gradually revealed that you were complex,
Brilliantly faceted as diamond waves,
Deep as the ocean,
Secretive as the treasures in the depths,
Warm as its salt waters,
And vivid as its sunsets.
Be as the ocean.
Remain the same.
Cradle me softly as the waters envelope the shells.
Carry me along in the tide of your life,
Until,
Like the ocean,
You tire of me forever
As a shell left tenderly by the sea
On the sands of endless time.