I won’t drown in you
even when the float has felt good
even when the dive touches deep
even when your waters caress my soul
I won’t drown in you
You give me your need
it rolls in unspoken words
your tide hits my shore
waves of it try to push me under
I race for higher ground
Your need wandered the desert
parched and shriveled dry
dying lonely, abandoned
living in the mirage of just over there
in the sea of sand and sun
I was your Oasis, a illusion of truths
fluid inquiry of desires ocean of want
laid out before your starving soul
in ocean blue and sea green
all moist and ready to fill you up
How could I deny your arid soul?
a wanderer in search of heart
I was a lake to dive into
a full cup to drink of
you tried to drink all of me
My waters can not fill your desert
my heart can not kiss your shore
finding me did not will not fill you
you wander the desert lost in the mirage
your heart a sea of sand and emptiness
There is No drowning in that quicksand
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I read other peoples poetry blogs regularly and sometimes there is lots of pain and angst in their words. Love lost, abandonment, mental illness, despair. Quite amazing actually. some of it touches me and some of it I don’t feel it or get it. so… todays poem feels inspired by some of that cause I have had all those pains whirling in me at some time or another. I felt the above on more than one occasion and then some.
One of the things that can happen when all the element collide internally.
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16 july 2001 > 18/9 > Moon/Hermit
What tool do you need, to find the strength to bring what needs to be finished to completion?
Can you get it done?
Do you need to shine a little bit more light on it?
At times It’s hard to read because I somehow Get swallowed up in the moment of their emotions. I can imagine being drowned in quicksand, so It was very evocative for me.
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powerful, evocative imagery!
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