Sometimes I feel a well dug deep into my heart I try to stop it but it quickly becomes ocean and overflows into great tsunami rises over all the levees rushes past dams breaks down tall city structures, edifices crumbling in its path all the squid and octopi skitting forth in wild pulses, tentacles entangled in doorways and rooves slipping through narrow window-openings as they pour ink in clouds, shifting shapes in cephalopod excitement while blue whales and humpbacks breach over bridges, phosphorescent jellies light up the dark streets of my arteries electric eels illuminate the alleyways of desolation's thick syrup and I cannot stop it even if I wanted to, these darkened, swirling waves I am both floating and flying like a jumping manta ray curling around the ferries bobbing in seahorse iridescence weaving between buses as if they were corals
And when the storm subsides, colorful rockpools form, rich in diversity It is there, in between the multicolored ***** and succulent shellfish, in a mermaid's voluptuous smile and turquoise eye that I see you, so crystal clear I could reach out and bring you to me, holding you tight until the gentle break of morning