Does the Aegean Sea know its age?
Each morning it greets me just the same
Each evening it thrashes and it pulls
Just to find its calm in the rising sun
Does it know its audience has shifted?
The dances have multiplied
The festivals no longer honor old deities
Can the sea tell it’s graced by a different god?
Yet we’re shaped by its waves just as so
We know the change in its mood
Just by the shade it appears
Just by the white lace of its foam
Its salt and cool nature draw us in more
Fill my hair with your water and dry it out with your salt
I take pleasure in your cold reign
Leave your lasting remarks upon my skin
A sea we’ve always and yet never understood
The center of a city yet it waits at the edge
I say goodbye one last time and it kisses my skin
Cold and salty and everything I’ll ever miss
It will guide me home for the final time this summer
I promise to come back to you, my ancient friend
Cosmo Susie 