FanStory.com - Stone and Seaby Jessica Wheeler

You pull away again,
and leave me to the sand-
rooted, stripped, waiting
on you to roll in again.

And come again, you will,
to smooth over the edges,
soften these jagged
hard feelings
with your wanting,
weathering waves.

Because you simply
can, because I will
remain
constant, still, unyielding,

because I am but a stone
for the tides to crash upon.

Yet you,
in all your distance, you-
in the deepening dusk,
among the scattered embers
of a fire turned
by you- I see you, clear.

And before you rise again
to wash the view,

I will look at you;
a mere surface,
reflecting the light's descent.