Water

(working title)

Veins blue and bulgy like rivers

flowing lines

slipping off the deep-end

A deep-sea creature

coming to the light

I asked ‘what do you love enough to leave?’ 

Fall off, like fall leaves 

in the shrunken trunks of Autumn trees

The night looms, all vulture-like

Darkness awaits to rush through us like water

so I rushed through it like the Aquarius I am

and like the Aquarius the great ocean was, in another life

I waded through those waters,

and felt its pressure against every bone in my body

like the bustle of my city against its serf

two soles against the turf 

But in the morning, we’ll evolve

like a butterfly from a caterpillar

And proceed like it’s always been ours to take

everything and nothing

Until a wave comes back again

to hit me, to floor me,

to seal me like an envelope