"Lost at Sea."

By Elisha

I wore it close, around my neck,

A lifeline laced in quiet tech.

Ten years tucked in one small shell,

A digital diary, I knew too well.

The sea was wild, the sky was loud,

Waves rose like mountains, bold and proud.

I surfaced breathless, heart still tight,

Then saw his face~ a shift, a fright.

A yell. A cord. A snap. A slip.

The past fell fast from fingertip.

My mind went blank, the world went dim,

But I still saw the care in him.

Contacts burned, but I dove deep,

To where my memories tried to sleep.

No signal here, no flash, no sound,

Just currents pulling all I found.

He dove too~stripped bare for me,

No thought, just action, loyalty.

We searched like love could bring it back,

But time kept slipping through the cracks.

I saw it once~a fleeting glow,

But reaching in a rising flow,

I hesitated, he rose, I leapt ~

But the ocean held what I had kept.

A wave came fast, like fate’s decree,

And just like that~

boom. Lost at sea.

Now here I sit, pretending still,

That I’m okay, that I won’t feel.

But truth is loud when silence grows,

And grief, like tide, still ebbs and flows.

It’s not the phone I cry about,

It’s all the memories now in doubt.

It’s who I was in every frame —

And how I’ll never hold the same.

But somewhere deep beneath that wave,

I left a piece I couldn’t save.

Yet even so, I’m still right here —

A heart that breaks, and still draws near.

To Be Continued........