The Sea Knows

For a first test post, here's a poem from a now-deleted Tumblr account. The writer is unknown to me:

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The sea knows.

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Poets proclaim their love

for the sea in summer

as if it does not exist in the fall.

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But (the sea knows) only those

who have loved it in winter

have ever loved it at all.