I’ve always dreamed of surfing
Yearning for an escape
An escape from my life

swirling
like the tides
waves cresting and rising
peaks and falls
all to escape
a world, one
where I know
that I’m wanted
and yet I feel like a
ghost in my own reality,
drifting along like trash in an infinite ocean

and then I met you.

Yes, you!

you taught me to make islands in this infinite cyber sea
that I could build whatever I want!
sand castles or mighty fortresses
tiny rocks set adrift or grand lands spanning over oceans

I could plant trees and make my own tropical forest
with millions of creatures big and small on the shores and in the jungle

I could build frozen atolls
ice filled wastes of nothingness
but filled with beauty
just below the surface

I started charting the seas
exploring the infinite blue
I met other explorers
sharing what little I knew

but any ocean has its storms
and these seas always change

Islands are abandoned
Returning to the seas
An infinite blue
The internet be a cruel mistress
But there is always hope
New islands are formed in our digital ocean
And new explorers come to find them

Thank you explorer
Thank you for finding me
No matter how hard the storms of life are
I know that I have a refuge

in our infinite
cyber
sea
🌊