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Christianah Oparinde Student @ Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
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In Relationships • 3 min read • May 26, 2025 20:37p.m.
The depth beneath our surface- from one ocean to another.
<p>When we first touched,</p><p>there was no thunder.</p><p>No need to stir up waves or rearrange the skies.</p><p>We didn’t mix.</p><p>We didn’t merge.</p><p>We simply met</p><p>like two oceans that had traveled miles of pain, of beauty,</p><p>only to find peace at the edge of each other.</p><p>You didn’t ask me to become you.</p><p>I didn’t need to change my tides to match yours.</p><p>We just rested.</p><p>Side by side.</p><p>Breathing in unison but still fully ourselves.</p><p>And yet… what you didn’t see,</p><p>what I never let the surface reveal,</p><p>was that beneath my calm… I was breaking.</p><p>I had loved before.</p><p>Desperately.</p><p>Like saltwater clinging to burning skin.</p><p>Like You Are My Everything—a love that consumed me,</p><p>until I forgot where I ended and they began.</p><p>I had called someone my world once.</p><p>And when they left,</p><p>they took the sun with them.</p><p>Then there was the goodbye I never healed from.</p><p>The one I still carry in low tide.</p><p>The Happiest Year of my life that ended not with a crash</p><p>but with a quiet, aching drift.</p><p>I told them thank you.</p><p>I meant it.</p><p>But it still hurt to let go.</p><p>After that, I stopped reaching for the shore.</p><p>I became silent waves.</p><p>Distant, deep.</p><p>So many people tried to swim in me,</p><p>but none stayed long enough to know my depth.</p><p>Another Love left me empty.</p><p>I gave my best to people who didn’t know how to hold it.</p><p>So I held myself instead.</p><p>Cold.</p><p>Still.</p><p>Exhausted.</p><p>Then… I found you.</p><p>No.</p><p>You found me.</p><p>You—steady, soft.</p><p>You didn’t ask for the sunshine.</p><p>You stayed through my storms.</p><p>You saw how dark it got at the bottom and didn’t flinch.</p><p>And suddenly,</p><p>without trying,</p><p>we became something sacred.</p><p>Not two oceans crashing</p><p>but meeting.</p><p>Unmixed.</p><p>Unmoved.</p><p>Yet unshakably drawn.</p><p>Loving you has been like “Until I Found You”.</p><p>Like realizing I didn’t have to collapse into someone to be close.</p><p>Like remembering I could be fully me,</p><p>and still be held.</p><p>You didn’t fix me.</p><p>You just made space beside me.</p><p>And somehow, that was everything I never knew I needed.</p><p>We are still our own waters.</p><p>Still rising with different moons.</p><p>Still shaped by different winds.</p><p>But now,</p><p>we speak in waves.</p><p>And somewhere between your stillness and my silence,</p><p>we became a language no one else can translate.</p><p>Two oceans.</p><p>Unmixed.</p><p>But undeniably… in love</p>
Abdulsalam Ishola
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