Flotsam

Words eluded me
My feelings imprisoned
The river curtailed
No ebb, no flow

A lock
Drained dry
The mud deep and dark
No silver shards of light
No peaceful waves to lull me to sleep
Let the basin be filled
Even if only with my tears

I prayed
The rain it fell slowly
The water hiding the debris
It fell heavy and harder
I sat and waited
Waited for the sun to light the cool deep waters
The gates opened their wooden arms
And I flowed silently into life once more
Water is life and is all that I am

Mairi Tognin ©