🎵 The Last Poem by the Ocean – ⏱️ 3:55 Runtime
Format: Spoken Word / Ambient Cinematic
Vibe: Hauntingly minimal, reverent, immersive
Voice: One vocalist, soft spoken/sung hybrid with ambient backing vocals
🎧 [0:00 – 0:25]
INTRO – Ocean + Ambient Swells (No vocals)
Sound of distant tide, low sub drone, glassy textures swelling.
A single soft note on the piano at :12.
🎙️ [0:25 – 1:20]
VERSE 1 – Whispered, Slow Flow (50 sec)
I carried your ancestors.
In salt and cradle tides,
I rocked them to the rhythm of stars
before you knew what stars were.I swallowed your gods
and sang their names
through coral cathedrals
and shipwrecked prayers.
Even when you forgot them,
I remembered.
⏳ Tip: Speak lines evenly, ~5–6 sec per line. Let piano notes and ambient textures breathe between stanzas.
🎙️ [1:20 – 2:00]
VERSE 2 – Emotional Swell + Strings Build
I wore your grief like pearls.
Took your oil, your bones, your waste,
and still held up the moon
so your children could dream.You threw your warships into me
and I softened them.
You poisoned me
and I still fed you.
Ambient strings swell beneath “I still fed you,” transitioning into the bridge.
🎙️ [2:00 – 2:25]
BRIDGE – With Choral Harmony (25 sec)
Now I rise.
Not in wrath—
in remembrance.
Not to drown you—
to remind you
I was always alive.Not a thing to conquer.
Not a backdrop to your stories.
But a story older than language.
Older than light.
Choral pads echo “older than light…” into next section.
🎙️ [2:25 – 2:50]
VERSE 3 – Gentle Rhythm + Space (25 sec)
I have wept for centuries
in tides and tsunamis,
kissed every shore
even as they built walls
to forget me.
I have heard every love confession
made on the sand.
I have caught every ash
scattered in farewell.
I have witnessed
every first swim,
every last breath.
🎙️ [2:50 – 3:10]
CHORUS – Soft Echoes, Layered Vocals (20 sec)
And still—
I love you.
Even now.
Even now.
Even now.
Repeat “Even now” 2x with vocal harmony to deepen the moment.
🎙️ [3:10 – 3:35]
VERSE 4 – Steady Rhythm, Hopeful Shift
I remember you
before the forgetting.
So I offer you this:
one last tide.
One last mirror
to see yourself
as I always did—
fragile, miraculous,
brief as foam
and just as beautiful.
🎙️ [3:35 – 3:55]
OUTRO – Whispered, Final Echo
Take off your armor.
Stand barefoot on my skin.
Place your ear
against my waves.
Can you hear it?
The heartbeat beneath the breaking.
It sounds like yours.
Please,
choose to return
before I must reclaim.
Song ends on a shimmering note that fades into ocean silence.