before what we call the modern age
when the new world is still young and unscathed.
the tide comes in. the moon is bright. i am (we are) the arms of a starfish. i sink to the bottom of the ocean, enveloped by the currents, caressed by the seaweed.
it’s the closest we come to healing.
we separated into two beings. i have been searching for you ever since. you have barely eluded me in each incarnation. but i am catching up.
a long time ago, millions of years ago, two sharks lived in the ocean together, and they shared a heart. they always had to stay very close together; so close that they were almost inside each other. this way, when the heart beat, it beat for both of them. it pumped blood through both their bodies.
the sharks did everything together. they fed together. they played together. they slept together. of course they made love together. they were never apart.
but one day there was a giant tsunami. it rocked the waves and undercurrents of the ocean right down to its sea bed. the sharks were tossed and turned, and the force of the waves caused them to become confused, weakened, disoriented.
the sharks got separated from each other. they both died of a broken heart.
we hold on by a tenuous grip
that a change in the weather could easily rip.
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