A cool breeze dancing across the ocean
In silky, billowy, smoke-colored skirts.
Long, thin legs tip toe across the surface:
Touching it
Gently lifting it
Stealing it away.
Howling as it flies away.
Bare breasted and hair untied,

Its body whips from side to side.

Yielding to no one or anything

It shrieks with laughter as it flings

Tiny drops of water onto the ledge

Of the cliff where always I stand on edge. 

Arms wide open and fingers unclasped

Time and again I  try to grasp 

The impish wind that cackles in my face

And one last time I try to brace

Myself against its hate.

For eternity... this is my fate.

Delve