I live my life like water

For water never lingers

And though it sustains...

It will slip through your fingers


The tiniest drop hardly felt on your lips

In vaster amounts will support many ships

I live in and around you, unseen in the air

But can be called on to revive, when you all but despair

Water does not resist, instead it just flows

Moving with ease wherever it goes

When you plunge your hand into it, it will merely surround you

It is not a solid wall, that will stop or confound you.

But water always goes wherever it may

and nothing you can do will ever make it stay

Water is patient, it will wear away stone

Remember this, my friend, when you feel all alone

For you are mostly water, so when faced with dead ends

Go round them or over them, for water always transcends

I'll live my life like water, until my dying breath

"He wrote his name on water" will be my epitaph.

Matt Revans
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