WATER WALKING (poetryrepairshop 99.10:119) |
| I walked on water for long But never knew it Never comprehended The depths below the stilled waters You laid your hands upon my mind (No one has such cold hands) poured yourself as oil upon troubled waters made us kith with a kiss of arsenic and almonds Born - Torn between two worlds Yours and mine (Caught between the erotic and the mystical) Together we weathered much - but never knew it - A touch of minds was enough you felt so I agreed preferring friendship to emnity (You retreating behind a kind of purity - Me wrecked. Wracked upon my own body and the memory of past histories.) It was belief in you that kept me afloat. (I quote : 'It simply alters the definitions; changes the dynamics, that's all' Me falling. Flailing headlong Trying not to clutch, To cling Failing.) I walked on water But knew it not Left no footprints behind to mark my passage To India, China, Africa Anywhere but here Eye fixed on the sky ahead - Wedded to the future Welded to the sky - crucified on my expectations Wings outstretched - but brineblinded Looking down I found the holes in my feet so sank without trace. (tracing your face in water - I'm ankledeep now sleeping monsters stirring) Seachanged into some thing strange to me; crusted with new emotions ('Trust me') Barnacles of love clinging and sinking me. (Drowsy monsters moving in the deeps of my sleeping body) which are unknown - therefore frightening like a childsdream ('Big girl now - not scared of monsters') of love and death ('Big breaths. Whose afraid of the big bad .....') They weigh me down. (Wet between thighs) Pull me ''neath waves of uncertainty (Sea in belly, floating slow) I'm drowning now where once I walked on (breast: neck: throat to sky: submerged (I'm verging on infinity) - mouth below, so swallow liquid - (NO : swallow in sky impaling itself on it's own high C) water in eye - but am I crying now so late? So late. So late. When weighted down - drowning in unsurity and guilt. Split blood. Spilt milk. Spilt) water.
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