Your shadow danced where hibiscus kept its code, A cipher solved by laughter’s lightest mode. We traded barbed witticisms, dry and sweet, While lanterns tut-tutted stars in tidy fleet. The bartender hinted reefs behind the smile I swore I’d navigate with wit, not guile. The breeze rehearsed a scholar’s let's see, As futures braided close with tides’ esprit. You spoke of maps that risk a prudent fate, Yet I preferred the cruise of a shared debate. Stay a while, let us drink this moment slow, The coast our witness, you the leading show. Our hearts, like drums, keep time with silver night, Beating in rhythm with the waves’ soft light. Stay, dear hour, let memory bloom and glow, For love begun here may outlast any foe. If dawn should rise with coral-tinted schemes, I’ll juggle suns to keep us in these dreams. Let the sunrise autograph our names in foam, And prove that even seas can’t outwrite this home. Stay a while, let us drink this moment slow, The coast our witness, you the leading show. Our hearts, like drums, keep time with silver night, Beating in rhythm with the waves’ soft light. Stay, dear love, let memory bloom and glow, For in this bar by the sea, I’ll never let you go. Let dawn reclaim the shore, but keep our vow— That in this tropical night, we wrote eternity now.
