Monday, February 28, 2011

Dripping Identity

Words, words and more words
Dripping down out of an unfiltered sky
Composed of everything I was and am and think I will be

Large puddles forming on these city blocks
Nonabsorbent, they turn me away
To wash hope and dream into gutter

There are no trees here to nourish,
No grasses or wild flowers to reach root down
Or petal upward to receive a reviving drop

Just one large, subsuming lake
Diluting me, polluting a one-time purity
Washing me out to sea.

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