Love at the Beach

A Sufi poem about my Beloved and me at the beach

How can I not want to write poetry About my life today? About the crystal clear blue waters That made me feel like a mermaid About the feeling of salty coolness Pressed up against My naked body

How can I not want to write poetry About all the glittering atoms And their billion-year-old journeys So that we could meet together at this moment To touch each other so tenderly As if we were long-lost lovers For all eternity

How can I not want to write poetry About taking in the sun Allowing him to change the molecular structure Of my skin Offering myself up as a humble sacrifice Turning a shade of blush brown When I shyly reveal to him my flesh

How can I not want to write poetry About this infinite love that is all around Sometimes I blink And my Beloved has gone again Playing hide and seek But I notice today there is nowhere to hide Nothing to seek For every droplet of this reality Is he

In the sea In the sun In the sand On my flesh

Around me Around me Around me And how could I not want to write poetry about it