Someones+Jewel

__ Someone’s Jewel __

by: Taylor Iodice

Out you crawled from my protective womb I was your shield I was your home

We had grown together Our intertwined hearts blossomed as one

Forever dancing to the silken waves I held you as we swayed in infinite seaweed forests

Now abandoned I float the tides hand pushes me onward.

On the shore I arrive wrapped in blankets of foam

Plucked off the sand like a precious jewel Snatched before washed away in a wave of white

She chose me.

With her braids blowing softly off her freckled shoulder She knows my journey has been long as she rubs my worn cheeks in her little hand

That little hand that now smoothes away my salty tears And welcomes me in Protecting me in her loving embrace I am home

and she chose me.