Dufflite Xetaw Poet Villanelle

The Sea Remembers

The sea remembers all it cannot keep,
Each wave a story, crashing into shore,
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.
A sailor's prayer, a widow’s dreamless sleep,
The driftwood echo of a lover’s lore—
The sea remembers all it cannot keep.
It sings of storms and treasures lost in sweep,
Of shipwrecked years and voices heard no more,
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.
It never rests, its tides forever creep,
A memory that lingers evermore.
The sea remembers all it cannot keep.
It cradles sorrow where the shadows weep,
A lullaby beneath the ocean floor—
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.
And though we leave, it mourns, it does not sleep—
We are the myths upon its moaning shore.
The sea remembers all it cannot keep,
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.

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