The Ocean Remembers

I came where the silver waters breathe, Where the windows face another sky. Your voice moved softly through the walls, Like a song that never learned goodbye. Was it love, or only light? Was it grief dressed up in white? The ocean remembers What the heart cannot release. It gives me your shadow, But it cannot give me peace. I hold you like water, You vanish through my hands. The ocean remembers, But only love understands. You smiled with a stranger’s eyes, You knew my name but not my scars. I asked the sea to tell the truth, It answered me with falling stars. If I stay, I lose the morning. If I leave, I lose you twice. But love is not a perfect dream, It is the wound that keeps us alive. The ocean remembers What the heart cannot release. It gives me your shadow, But it cannot give me peace. I carry your echo Back across the sand. The ocean remembers, But only love understands.