I think this is quite effective at doing what you set out to do: write a love poem without the word "love". The images and metaphors are effective, especially the sand/tide one, and I love "you breath(e) and take me in" (don't forget that "e", BTW). I would suggest reworking the first stanza because it's slightly confusing and redundant, and in my opinion the last stanza is just a bit "over the top". But that said, it's fine love poem. d:-)

Of course, still having a little of the romantic in me, I like the fourth stanza the best. I also like the last stanza. It has a mystical quality that pricks the mind and invites meaning making - from this reader at least. I don't know if you changed it after Bruce's comment, but I DO like it.

a poet is an architect and the houses you build my friend are always welcoming and habitable. That is the beauty of your poems, in that they are such lovely places to enter and always at the risk of feeling and learning that valuable and cherished lesson within.