Orphan

I found her washed up on the shore, Brought her home and kept her there. For days she sat silently on my bed, Pulling crustaceans from her hair. I brought her tea and the warmest towels, She was as white as the lip of the sea. She was stripped down and as skinny as a boy, And as cold as the midnight breeze. Neither of us ever uttered a word, Until the day she pulled me in. Years had passed, and I never realized, How in love I’d been. O, ocean’s saddest orphan, With eyes brimming of that salty blue, She told me we had met before, In a life that I once knew. She said I was the one who dumped her, That night in the middle of the sea. And said the reason she looks so familiar, Is that she once was me.