Water Music
"Water Music"
The Ocean sweeps in
before you know it
your feet are sinking
you’re pulled out with the tide
and Life wraps it’s fluid wings around you,
you errant, embrace the smother,
retreat has lost it’s hook, and somehow you rise
With a mouthful of forgotten words
swallowed inharmonious and silent
like sands fathoms deep now
falling rapidly through
the slender fingers of time, somewhere
low and vast behind you,
you are released from the sucking undertow
On the surface
like a recalcitrant buoy ringing its bell
shakes a remnant of what it is
to hold onto Life and
for whom it tolls,
salt encrusted, invisible, its call is ancient
Something powerful pervading and unknown
The Ocean sweeps in
before you know it
your feet are sinking
you're pulled out with the tide
and a Fisher King has got you by the tale
you are now walking on water
you lose grip on a warm hand outstretched
there is your absent mind
addled with disbelief
you sink
swallowed in the belly of the whale
no time there,
an endless chasm
for you to think
The Ocean swallows you
Inside the Leviathan you’re numb to dream
the monster opens its mouth
silently you hold your life on its tongue,
it has the power to speak
when you adamantly listen to no one
like echolocation it hits you within
Water music to swim
up towards the Sun
Out of the Great Depths
A new life begins
Waves are swelling o’er you
The Messengers of Poseidon
arrive like the Ancient Mariner's myths, there are Angels,
singing Silver Fins smile
you hold on
they
bring you in
(LadyLabyrinth/2109)
William Basinski - Watermusic II
https://youtu.be/pX_jySkFIK4
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2019
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