Leave me alone a little !
Must I be yours,
When all my heart is pouring with the sea
Out to the moon's impersonal majesty?
Leave me alone! My little vow endures
Men's irritating love, surviving yours!
Surviving all, surviving even you.
Leave me alone. This is no rendezvous:
I am not false except with my old sea moon.
You understand me?Wait behind the dune? Oh, level glow, oh soft, soft-spoken sea- Leave me alone. Why will you follow me!
I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.
Maggie Nelson, from Bluets (via violentwavesofemotion)