The Water Calls

The Water Calls

The transparent, crystalline river

Ebbs and Flows.

Backandforth, backandforth, backandforth.

It is hypnotic,

Calling to me from where

I stand.

 

A brilliantly colored fish

Leaps jubilantly out of the

Water.

Its scales glisten in the

Sun’s marigold

Rays.

Splashing the pure

Liquid as it falls back

In.

 

The majestic source of life,

Sustaining,

Powerful,

Enigmatic.

Its erratic disposition breeding

Both life and death.

The water giveth and it taketh

Away.

 

Unable to stay away much

Longer,

I glide to the

Serene water.

As I wade in, feeling

Nothingness, I

Remember.

 

Remember.

I remember the lethal waves,

Swirling,

Waltzing me around.

I spin, my breath gone,

MyLimbsFlailingToNoAvail.

Two grey hands wrap

Around my neck

And I am underneath the

Waves.

I sink down, down, down,

My lungs consumed by a

Wet inferno.

I forget where I am,

Who I am,

What I am.

My thoughts are gone,

I slip into a deep unconsciousness.

And for a moment that seems like

An eternity all is

Silent.

And above a bird soars.