I've got what you want <br />you told me to bring it <br />this box here for you <br />our ship's cargo <br />salvaged after wreckage <br />reminders of a voyage <br />a trip to Key Largo <br /> <br />What a grand time we'd had <br />up until that fateful day <br />the reef hit so suddenly <br />knocked us out for a moment <br />things would never be the same <br /> <br />Me, the nautical novice <br />You, with eyes like the ocean <br />Us, on a wayward rendezvous <br />To truly live is to drown in you <br /> <br />Revealed, I've now died <br />that I can accept <br />a treasure now kept safe <br />forever to you it is tied<br /><br />Sean Furlong<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tread-water-for-her/