Found myself centred around this river As if it were my life, its shallows deepening Into falling curves and rocky Foundation, yet cluttered in part With stagnating ****, at other times Flowing freely and softly engaging me Without its steaming torrents.
The waterfall thinks it can engulf me and I consider it at times denying it identity But sometimes it speaks loudly and refuses To whisper....’And so you’re there’ I say, and here Its raging response tumbling me into depths Out of my control..... or so it thinks.
I emerge for air and breathe in deeply To sustain me, for when I speak It is with something resembling coherence To blag me time from the place of harm Where it dips sharply and crashes onto slithers Of icy uncertainty, I begin to wipe my brow clean.
Releasing me from its fooling ways preventing the air Being squelched from me; take it easy with me My mind desires you to behave and let me be Don’t fool me into calm currents only to be tossed Amongst the white watery crash of boulders rounding Beneath me, sharp shards covered by your caressing hands That persuades my innocent eyes to close To the raging force of veiled kindness
I can remember the ripples of softness that would Cover my palm with coolness That dappled in sunlight, reflecting my face Asking me to admire the stillness And I believed in the sereneness of the ebb and flow That sheltered me in fineness with absorbent lining Reminding me of life absent to the steep slant Towards the shelled out wreck of my world...burnt out.