With Or Without You
I used to catch the twinkle in the corner of your eye
salty water spraying from your hair into the sky
"What were you dreaming when I saw you floating by?"
"I closed my eyes and counted up a million butterflies..."
We watched the sun slip slowly down
and cooled our feet in the sand
Shells on my knees and the warm summer breeze
slip like the sea through my hands
"Salt is good for your skin", you say.
(I'm too tired to shower anyway)
Sleep is a continuous rocking wave
and it meets my shore at the end of the day.
With you: I'm an ocean, miles deep.
Without you, I must hibernate in winter sleep
and dream of the summer's cast on the beach
when the twinkle in your eyes was within my reach.
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