The Flood

Alas! As I open the flood gates wide, and wait for cool drink coming nigh,

I fear the flood I do now call, for there is more then can be drunk by I,

and standing in the rivers path, I run the risk of being overwhelmed,

but how else am I to quench my thirst, in this desert laiden realm?

 

For the gates cannot be partially closed, else the water be contaminated still,

and even that I would yet risk, if it were sure that drink would fill.

 

But know I deep within my soul, that that drink would only parch.

 

And so I open the flood gates, wide, and await the strong flood coming nigh,

I fear the drink I do now call, for what will I seek when it has come,

if I survive the rivers rush, and wade forever, drinking as I please?

What then will there be for me to seek? What need I shall need to appease?

 

 

Author's Note

Too contrived or just right? At some points I don't think it feels natural.....but it is what's going on in my head.

Reviews

[Phoenix]

I get it now, but I don't agree. There's always something more to work for. And ignorance is not bliss, it's nothing. And the worst of anything is better than nothing.
And I don't think you've truly desired something if you don't desire it all the more once you have it.

[Alexander Fox]

Half-correct. You can only become thirsty after you have taken a drink. If a baby died of dehydration, it would not be thirsty, having never thirsted. that was the parching idea. the gates thrown open was because only half opening them may have stagnated the water, leaving it open to acquire disease's. And I do go on with the idea that i will always be able to drink my fill. After all, how can you die of dehydration in the middle of a river? But if I always get my fill, what is there to lust for? that was the idea for that last segment, The notion that you can only truly desire something as long as you do not possess it. But you were close-ish....

[Phoenix]

This reminds me of the poems and stories I've written that have that idea of thirst.
And it kind of seems like a follow-up of the radio one....
And I don't understand when you say that you let the water in to quench your thirst, even though you know it will only leave you still more parched. And yet you open the gates wide anyway, in the hopes that you're wrong? And then you go on like you actually do know that you'll be able to drink your fill, and yet after you do you'll have no further purpose to work for?
Or did I just get it entirely wrong? Probably.