One moment in time

 

The woman walks under a canopy of stars, across the silky damp sand of the beach and her feet leave tiny impressions. Invitations to the sea to come find her. It heaves its massive body upward, reaching out for her in the moonlight, pulling those footprints back into the sea.

Continuing on she feels the sharp small pebbles that lead her into the earth's embrace. Up onto the curve of boulders so large they block the sea's view of her. Collapsing, there like a modern day siren she gazes down on the gently surging water whose fingers now ripple towards her and whose tongue begins lapping up the scent of her. 

Each desperately seeking its soulmate in the velvety darkness of this night.

All night they stay there together. The sea gently caressing her, flowing over smooth extremities and down into tide pools, those deeply personal places that cause her to moan with pleasure. It is a long courtship between earth and sea and one that is eternal.

Then the sun begins to rise and the heart beneath it begins to pound, harder and stronger until the fingers turn to waves that rise higher and higher, beating against the boulders until the woman can sit silently no more.

Raising her arms she begs for him to come to her and he appears.

Sliding up from seemingly nowhere he dances for her. In and out of the sea's great arms, grace personified as his body rises to ride the waves in a dance older than the world itself and she is mesmerized. In that moment the sea sends its son to meet the earth's daughter with a power and a fury so ferocious that neither is even aware they are not one, but two.

Two creatures of the universe in perfect harmony for the eternity of that one moment in time.