Do you smile when you catch eyes with a stranger?

Or have harrowing consanguinity blemished expectations for painless connections?

Creating a story in your mind to quench lonely desires.

Decades misspent until one morning you whoop, "Cue the confetti!"

I'll spend my days loving myself!

Surfing riptides through barrier reefs, cresting effervescent waves of

oceanic adventures. Frequency mellowfied by

sweet froth, anointed by leeward teardrops.

You and me and the sea make three.

Triumvirate! Is this uninvited stranger not cloaked as we?

How curious to implore mercy to a mermaid?

Sea salt awakening childlike innocence, denuding the divine school.

Breathless encounters mere smirky seconds

When the moon phases through its cycle, do you track the tides?