Anteros's Sea Song

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I am here, and I am with you.

I’d like to be with you for times to come…

I slip my fingers into the ocean’s edge.

The liquid’s cool, azure, and calming, like your gaze.

 

I’d like to be with you for times to come -

With you, in every sense of the phrase.

The liquid’s cool, azure, and calming, like your gaze.

The waves are not what I am used to.

 

With you, in every sense of the phrase,

I wish to find again what I had lost.

The waves are not what I am use to;

The water caresses my being.

 

I wish to find again what I had lost.

In shades and pains of past desperation,

The water caresses my being;

You wash away the stains of soot and tears.

 

In shades and pains of past desperation,

I’d stashed away the heroine within me.

You wash away the stains of soot and tears.

You let me shine and swim and fly to freedom.

 

I’d stashed away the heroine within me.

Her glory had been marred and scarred by fear.

You let me shine and swim and fly to freedom.

You let her twirl and flow and merge with sea - and me.

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