By The Sea

 
It’s been so long since he went off to war
And still her heart belongs to him  
Hoping against hope she still yearns  
For his return even when it all seems dim  
  
So she lays there down by the wet sand  
To the gods she prays and she begs  
Wistful for him, for his embrace  
As the waves crash between her legs  
   
The upsurge caresses the sun-kissed skin  
As the sun begins to set in the distance  
The surf soothes her soul for a moment there  
Wondrous of her love that is so persistent  
   
But she loses all reason in the sea-spray  
Cooling her thighs for the man she craves  
As the memory timbres through her body  
Touched tenderly by the Ionian waves  
   
She tilts her head back relishing in the breakers  
It sends her across the vastness in a whirl  
Undulating at the cusp of the endless depths  
Breathless in the swells that stroke her pearl  
   
She calls his name at the water’s edge  
Whispering to the ocean and the breeze  
Return to me, she says over and over again  
Penelope waits for Odysseus down by the sea