water surrounds me.
i can feel it on my skin.
it rushes around my body, like
a blanket swaddling a child.
.i am a child of the water.
my eyes are open wide
i can hear the waves around me
swishing and gurgling like the
river is trying to tell me something
i see daylight through the clouds
it casts a golden light into the water
onto my skin.
,i am a child of the day,
i am suspended beneath the surface
of a golden river
and sometimes it is suffocating
but sometimes it is home
and i think i am happy
here
below the sun and the waves
with my eyes open and my heart beating just the same. . . .
the river brushes
my eyelids down,
and s l o w s my beating heart.
my skin is blanketed in gold;
the waves rock me to sleep.
,.i am a child of
the daylight waters,
warmed by the sun
and blanketed by the
waves. i am content.,
i wrote this piece while listening to "on the nature of daylight", an instrumental piece by max richter. this is a story inspired by the song, aka what i thought of as i listened to it. you might enjoy it best reading it while listening as well. xoxo, francis