{poetry}

Water

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​The earth will cover me someday
By then I will myself be earth
Along forever's line I stay
Here brightly in this moment's birth

And I reached out for the darkness old
In my broken youth
To bring time hard up next to me
And know the final truth

I took the earth in my two hands
And let it fall
Cold and rough and whole
My skin a sheet of ice

Ready at last to break
For I was broken
And to melt
For all my tears

That's the day the word was spoken
And I found the earth lit new
I thought that I was broken
But I'd broken through

2/11/2016