It Feels Like Water

A poem about the feeling one receives from a faraway lover

It Feels Like Water

 

I feel it deep

Heavy when you linger

A weight beyond my loving

Gravity is for keeps

 

You hammer me to the ground

like a corpse keeping its promise

to the world

to that girl

Someone will miss him or her but you

Creep

squeeze into my life and wince me away

Strong I was until I had seen

 

Innocence snicker to my chivalry

 

Wide and sharp shores

gently washing of beauty taking what was left of me

I rumbled through the day

further into You

deeper into that river of plush roses

that menacing flow of skin’s hue

The thought of spring’s nail cutting across her lip

shining and inviting

melting the rock of my mind in a constant loathing

The river breathes

to those fiery rapids and the piles of bodies

 

She smiles and I drown

I feel it deep