Last Touch

Last touch
Nix!
The game we used to play to say goodbye

Today I crave the sweet innocence of a childhood game.
Today I long for everything

If I could hold you
one last time

Breathe in your smile and sky blue eyes
Get lost inside of you, together with you
Only to find myself
Right beside you.

Catapulted into a deep Lake
Where one learns to breathe under icy water.

Drifting
In and out of numbness
slishy sloshy mud where I cannot rest
As creatures of the lake bed creep and scurry with my disturbances.
The little monsters that haunt me.

Distorted sounds wooossh and wail
Even my own only go so far, trapped in the underworld. . .

Glimpses of bright fuscia, twighlight moon, neon orange and green through murky waters
Fins, tails, air bubbles.

And yet the water holds me
E c h o i n g all that is.
Suspended, longing to sink into the depths
To feel, to rest, to love, to breathe.

I see you, your spirit yonder
Dancing between the sun and eucalyptus leaves

I feel you
And I am touched by you

Reviews

[Chris]

quite a dear view... moving and holding - both.

[PearlPoet]

Quite beautiful this write is... Love your closing lines!!!! Bravo!!!

[Jack...]

To long, this deep, without fear or notice, comes shining through wonderfully in your poem. Very nicely penned and happy I found it.

You write so beautiful Sis, and still with so much power, and selflessness, there is always a great strength, and power woven through your words, (self-reflective) lessons, and morals, yet so surreal, I've missed these unique writings so much, (for more than a year)... so so happy to see you back on here...

"And yet the water holds me
E c h o i n g all that is.
Suspended, longing to sink into the depths
To feel, to rest, to love, to breathe. "

Beautiful lines, I know you went through so much lately,
And were always close to my heart... this write touches me deeply.

Knuffels, en kussies skattie! ♥

- Elisa