Salt-Air Lullabies

    The vast blue sky

My diminutive sorrows

Burn behind

The further we go.

    With my rain coats and your fervor

We take off for a far cottage

Where twice a day the tide rages 

Always, salt air in our faces. 

    And this will be our hideaway

Sleepless nights without you, I've gathered

Now exchanged for a clear look  

Of this silver moon 

up high.

If from the shores we were birthed

Then her waves, we shall become.

    I was made to walk on sea gravel,

To taste brine on your lips

While the ocean carries us into our human

And its rhythmic crashing drowns us out.

    An azure humming 

Yet our voices

are never

too loud.

    In your arms,

I could drown, 

I could cry,

I could break

Let the whitecaps muffle our sounds. 

    Imitating the tidal waters

In and out with palpitation

Until the world begins to quiver

And my teeth tastes of metal. 

    

   Devotion is that of ocean blues

Flowers blooming on your throat

There's nothing but fervent mortal lust

And the distant sea's wailings. 

    At last we fall apart

Sea billows, as if sentient

Manoeuvre through my flesh;

And the afterlight of dusk

Will carry my slumber

To a land of much tranquility. 

    Tomorrow

Our precarious embrace

Would crumble with the sunlight's glow

And soon enough, will dissipate

to leave behind an ache

that can't be abated.

    Then I will become a child in its most primitive

weeping in solitary

floating

in the sun glitter.

    

    But for now

You will be my hideaway

Under your aegis in the harsh metropolis

I would have no room for melancholy.

    Lying on your chest I can smell the waves

A faded song of the seagulls,

Salty lullabies rock me to sleep

Dreaming of a tomorrow

Where my attempts to make you stay

would no longer be futile. 

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Note: this isn't about the ocean. 

vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, cranberry juice.

rain coats là áo mưa.....=))))))))))))) ai hiểu sẽ hiểu hehehe

Last edit: August 8th, 2026