You were beautiful,

beautiful like the red sky at sunset when the ships come home, 

beautiful like the way the sea would form white sea foam on top of the jagged black rocks

of a shoreline I longed for, where you were.

but,

your beauty was unreachable, unattainable,

and as I cried bitter tears of regrets at night,

I dreamed a pipe dream where you and I would be together

in a separate paradise where distance did not exist.