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Head above Water

Let it go? Stop holding on?
Do you see my hands grasping someone?
If only it were so simple,
I’d let go by mere principle!
I was told, like two spent swimmers,
So clinging, there could be no winners,
 
As we each fought to keep our head above water
 
Was my hand round her throat?
So effectively did I seem to choke
The love from our frantic dance.
and so gone, am I now strangling
The life from myself?
Does the air, too full of joy
Have no place for me within it?
No. Such melodrama does me disservice.
 
I just fight to keep my head above water.
 
T’was just love, and with love do I cling
To each and everyone, and everything
That catches my eye with beauty and grace,
Intelligence and wit; a smile on your face.
I write a lot of smiles; they are the hugs
That calm my fast frenzies, my drugs
 
I plunge, emerge, and breath; repeat.
 
So, choking? The only choking I do,
Is on a drink as I laugh with you,
And as I’m torn asunder with guilt
Because I can’t just let you go
 
My art is choked, but only because I do not wish to let your hand go.
Is it too much to want to leave the waters, together?

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