Floating Away

I watch these recent energies

Go back to their normal place in reality

I look to the sky, knowing what awaits me

Me back to me, and you back to the sea

I watch you floating away

Or is it me?

This wave pushes and pulls me

I never know where I stand

What’s sea and what’s land

These oceans within betray me

Or is it me?

I taste this salt on my lips

And this blood on my fingertips

It’s all bitterness

Bred from fear and ignorance

There’s something in this air

That tears at my skin and hair

My eyes burn, my stomach turns

And I wait for the moment that delivers her

But the miracle never comes

The magic of love

I question how deep the rabbit hole goes

And how much a lover can ever really know

ⓒ 2003 Shawn Michael Quinn