Onto Deeper Waters

Here's a little something I wrote during math. Enjoy!

Onto Deeper Waters

I’ve got these currents of words

Streaming through my head

My English teacher calls it poetry

But I know it’s something more

Because the warmth is so strong I find its gravity pulling me to the floor

And for a mere second the reasons for my existence are sure

For every time I let these creeks of words drip onto a page

I feel saved

And brave

I’m dancing in the sunshine

Everything is just fine

I don’t feel a need to rewind

All those words that spilled from my peach lips

Instead of my wrinkled fingertips

Because I know that these poems

Can polish the jagged angles and broken glass

That can sometimes define the past

And these poems are something that will last

And although I could never run fast

The instant I write this

I can fly

I can feel

All the bliss

That so many miss

That this life has to offer

So I swim in these streams

Of poetry rushing through the boulders of my body

And I know that in these translucent warm waters

I will never drown

Because all alone inside the waters of my mind

I am finally found

And one day I’m going to find the ocean

Purify my soul in the waves’ commotion

Listen to my heartbeat’s true sound

I will no longer flee but

Follow that urge

And submerge

And be free

And finally see

That the essence rippling through this sea

Is the real me.