Waves

How is it I never see The waves that bring her words to me For though unseen they drift around They catch my breath and knock me down I feel them quickly swirling by As they withdraw with my reply And slip into the dark of night As I attempt to stay upright Instead I'm stranded on my knees As words depart upon the breeze Which quickly drifts away from here And possibly won't reach her ear If we could see the many waves That flow through clouds and sunken caves She'd sense at least the words that sought her On the wind and underwater