You found me

[MissAnna]

The sea had carried me for ages, or so it felt.

I drifted like a message in a bottle no one ever opened, salt crusting my hope, moonlight scribbling its quiet notes across my skin.

I waited in that wide blue nowhere, a small heartbeat in a cathedral of tides.

Some nights the waves sang lullabies with crooked voices, and other nights they tugged at me like old regrets.

I learned to whisper to the stars just to stay brave.

Then you appeared.

Not as a thunderclap or a heroic ship slicing the horizon, but as a lantern glow moving toward me, soft as dawn stretching her fingers across a sleepy sky.

Your light made the ocean unclench for the first time.

You didn’t rescue me with ropes or grand gestures.

You simply reached out and let me know I had finally been seen.

The sea, startled, loosened its grip and let my tired spirit rise like a gull catching an updraft.

And there, in the hush between two waves,

I realized love is not a lighthouse shouting for attention but the quiet warmth of someone who finds you exactly where you thought you’d disappear.

You found me

just when I feared I’d become part of the deep.

And now my heart sails with a wind it trusts, carrying your name like a compass that finally points home.