The slow falling rain of water
Drops below the enduring
Reign of words.
One pelts, drenches, slushes out all,
The other penetrates and hold captive
Long after the remnants of clouds
Have withered away.
Impaled thus on words you seek water
In the growing cracks of the parched desert.

I think it's bitter,
But better say it's sweet.
I could make this longer,
Then it wouldn't be a tweet.

Pull it out, ******!
The well is nearly empty,
We want to get all the water we can.
We must be quick, we do not want
To share it, little that we have. Don't complain,
Or else I'll do you in too. I don't care
About you or the others, I want
My own water.

Dazed and bleeding, I'm all
Crazed; I'm not leaving, you're
Calling me, I ain't listening, I'm
Out and beyond now, I'm
Out of reach and you all are just
Out of your minds if you think that I've
Said what I needed to, it doesn't mean that
Just coz I peed my pants when I saw my face,
That I'm gonna stop and leave this place,
You're mental, It's not me; It's you, you all, you
Told me when it was over that my
Time's up and hauled me over
The edge, it's too late, can't just go
To the ledge, must wait for that
And smoke the fear right out of
My eyes, till you look into me and I, I
Look into yours, you and me, we
Have the life (we have life) and the flesh and the blood, and just
One thing more, and that's
Why we're here.

There were lines forming in it;
Fractures, small and large.
One in particular loomed large
And broke off, sliding down.
Only then did I see what lay behind it, but
Would you believe me if I told you ?

Tell me what you see, said the old man,
But it was white, all white, and
What could I possible make out in the storm ?
Yet he insisted, standing behind the rock to my side,
Glowering at me with his steady eyes.
And I in turn glowered, at the
Vast white nothingness,
Which seemed a single mass;
Something there was that seemed to flow
Within it, under it.
Yes, the nothingness did move, and so
On I stared.

A grand journey it was!
Sledding and running,
Flying and crashing,
Tumbling into and careening off,
Stepping aside and barging in,
Jumping over and crawling through,
Bruised and scarred and cut and scraped,
But loving every moment of it;
Every terrifying and wonderful moment!