Underneath. Down here where it’s calm.
Where the black beauty of the abyss touches my feet.
All is quiet.
All is still.
I’m entombed as if in a coffin.
Locked forever in my own space
Controlling the promise of my ever after.
And then you came.
Pelting my world.
Hurtling across like a comet in my stretching blue sky.
You bring the change, flowing through like a weather system.
Flourishing my eyes open like a new season.
Calling sub-oceanic flowers to bloom within me.
Aquatic forest pines that reach up to touch the surface.
To reach and touch your face.
My hands branch to catch the light you dazzle.
A sudden rush you instill within me like heroin bubbles in my blood.
Coming up too soon, bending my compression that has kept my heart safe.
Heading for the bends.
I’m a fish not born to fly with you.
High where the birds and angels soar.
Hidden in these depths for reasons.
For sins that keep me drowned.
Now it rains under water, puddling the pool of the sea that parts us.
And I drift in the stream of sorrow.
Knowing that the rain on the surface, is really your tears.

Sometimes, someone we never planned, to bump into in our lives, leave, a huge mark that stays, forever, with us, for the rest of our lives…
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Underneath our skin perhaps. Nicely put.
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Feeling, images, word use… All perfect.
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Thank you, this was a a revised piece so i’m glad the contemporary glue made it more cohesive.
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You are welcome 🙂 It was a great read. Whatever you did worked wonders.
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Thank you, i appreciate that.
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My god Mark. This is gorgeous.
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Thank you Tara, your opinion is highly valued so i appreciate it; and glad you enjoyed it.
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Lovely sense of melancholy, Mark. Just when we think that we are safe…
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Exactly, well we can always return to the ocean.
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This is beautiful.
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Shared on my blog.
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Thank you, glad you liked it and decided to share 🙂
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Aaaaah. Water for the soul. 💙
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Prepare for the flood!
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Uh oh. :))
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Nice. Love that ending!
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