Published By: Olivia
When this young woman was reading me this poem, she began to laugh so hard that she couldn’t stop. She told me that she gave it to a guard who she liked, who had inspired her to write. When I asked her why, she told me that he reminds her of a guy who she dated on the outside. These incarcerated girls want to live their adolescence, (they want to fall in love and experiment and go out with their friends) and they are aware that on the inside it´s impossible. In this poem, she says that the distance between she and he is the same as the distance between the ocean and the sky.
The Ocean and The Sky
Young Woman, 19 years old
One fresh morning like any other
Something beautiful happened to me when I looked around
I bumped into a beautiful gaze, sweet and tender
One of those gazes that with just one someone can rob your heart
A brilliant and incomparable gaze
It was one of those unique gazes
Having it close hipnotizes you and makes you forget everyone and everything
A glance that is hard to come by but when you find it
You try to save it
Like something important and valuable for you
And seeking it and not finding it
Makes you desperate and casts a spell on you
Because it is one of those glances where time doesn’t exist
Only the moment in which you can contemplate it
That gaze reflects your little eyes
In that angelical face
You look so handsome, so sweet and sincere
Like few
I would love to lose myself in your gaze
drown in a kiss from your delicious red lips
cover myself with your arms and find refuge in your chest
but I know that that will never happen
it’s just as impossible as water combining with fire,
the ocean with the sky,
it’s like touching the stars with the tips of my fingers
you are so sacred for me
that I don’t even have to touch you
and not because I don’t want to
but because I shouldn’t
And so for me you will always be
An unreachable love
A long-distance love
An unrequited love
A platonic love
I will be the ocean and you the sky