B - Submergence

There was a time when I thought of nothing else but you
Of you waiting on the sand as I waded out to sea
Wincing as urchins snagged my feet, gulls shrieking in endless
blue
And you become smaller on the shoreline, more remote from me
Sweating in steaming eucalyptus green on sand littered with yellow
leaves
Glued to the ground by the weight of steaming air
Wishing the winds could freshen and we'd dance among golden
sheaves
Of harvested wheat under a gentler sky where we could share
The sighing silence of woods clinging to reddening hills
Mist swirling in hollows as cold night spills
Into warming morning dew.

Plunging beneath the surface where sunrays rippled
Your face flashed before me like a lightning bolt
Sheeting over writhing masses of stormcloud, your cheeks dimpled
When you smiled, I lay awake deep into night as a result
Of days spent always with you. When I burst back out
Droplets of seawater spun drunkily, and floated in dreamy slow
motion
Pear-shapes flattened at splash-down. I thought I'd heard you
shout
But only pebbles waited on the beach, bleaching as the sun shone
I thought I saw the starry trail of your plane humming in the sky
Homeward, fading as dark blue deepened to ebony
Into night-time's scented silence.