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

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