ENTREATY
It is what we do when we are in an open sea,
locked in roiled waters on uncertain weather:you row like my life depended on it, I row
you away from your fears that somewhere,
sometime, in this abiding turbulence, I will
absently dive into the dark depths and stay
under, finding solace from not resurfacing,
when bobbing up for air means we have to row
into a shore of rocks, run aground, and dash
like the homing waves into a brackish boulder.
But I am rowing back with you to that sandbar
where I etched the letters framed in a piercedheart that has yet to be erased by ebbing tide.
Will you find time then to write your promise?
---Albert B. Casuga
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