Poem 0152: birthday 7 (waterfront)

There’s nothing magical about water.
It’s around and inside us all the time.
Haven’t I heard that humans are two-thirds
Liquid?

Commonplace: this water inside that calls
So many of us to be at or in the water on the
Outside. And then turns our heads again when
We hear it rush,

Or when it scampers groundward from the sky
In rain. Gushing, it reminds us of another
Metaphor — of the connection between water
And emotion:

How an emotional person is drowning in his
Feelings or “she is up to her neck” in whatever
Sadness, anger, shame, fear or joy is her present,
Momentary experience.

In so many ways, we humans are the waterfront
Inside that we long for on the outside. We cannot
And need not escape this truth. It is what it is.
We flow on.

There’s everything magical about water…

~ by Stan Stewart
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