Intertwined and Drowning

Intertwined I feel the rushes Wound ‘round my feet Intertwined about me Aspiring to possess my soul To hold me eternally from below. I can see The sunlight above me Shining far above my face In shadows of green and yellow The warmth of the summer sun. In the dappled water so high above So near and yet so far beyond… Offering finite life Whilst below there is only The silence Of perpetual sleep. I can see Floating ever after Trying hard to breathe Holding in my last breathe Of sweet and earthly air While visions of the great beyond are swimming through my hair. Bubbles of effervescence rise Like past and future aspirations Swirling about On the thinnest strand Of my last thread Of that which toward I can barely stretch. (November 26, 2010 Wausau, Wisconsin) (c) Copyright 2010 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved