You Are Water
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July 20, 2017
~ Ninth Place ~
Premiere Contest: Up To You
Sponsor: Brian Strand
~ Second Place ~
Contest: Premiere Contest Number 15
Sponsor: SKAT A
You, are water~
fluid moods
overflowing extremes.
I dip my toes
testing,
should I dive in..?
This time,
will y o u let me sink or swim?
Have you r e a l l y changed?
You are a lagoon
soothing, cooling
tranquil.
For now, I float
in sweet oblivion...
You are soft, a shimmering mirage
of something I hope for.
Illusional life-giver;
a fertile oasis in arid land
giving love unhurt to my heart.
You move like an undulating river
natural, flowing, dynamic, definite,
sailing the curves
taking me places never imagined,
when we're apart.
You are a flash flood,
white water without warning!
Cleansing, destructive
baptizing both good and evil away.
You are a raging waterfall!
Beautiful in your steep revenge
threatening to roil me over the edge.
You are a tsunami!
Born of violent eruption.
Mortifying, underestimated, overwhelming
growing larger as I let you get closer.
Sweeping me up
slamming me along
with the rest of your emotional debris.
You are a MAELSTROM!
Dizzying, swallowing, suffocating
K i l l i n g
Spinning
sucking me down,
down,
through the center
into your drowning depression.
No,
your circular violence
h a s n ' t changed.
Copyright © Susan Ashley | Year Posted 2017
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