Flood

rebmasters

I watched you walk away
in the grey rain;
head bare, erect,
like a challenge.
Your dark hair was water
flooded from a river
bursting its banks at your hairline.

If everyone is a desert,
you are an oasis,
but you’re drowning.
Everyone drinks from you,
but no one will save you.

Like a dream, you move awkwardly;
no coat.
The water swells beneath your feet,
as though trickling out of you
from the sky of your mind
down the waterfall of your thighs.

Red rivulets run down your arms
from past downpours,
when the sky tore
& tried to swallow the ground whole.

Grey covers you.
I wish I could stand over you
& shelter you
& keep just an inch dry
at the back of your neck.

Let me get wet 
instead.
Let it pour down
& pummel me to the ground.
I’ll soak it all up like a sorry sponge
& float away
some place your feet
haven't taken you yet

  • Author: rebmasters (Offline Offline)
  • Published: October 11th, 2021 02:56
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Caring dove

    This person sounds really sad ... it’s difficult to see someone else hurting jn life and we do want to save them . This is how I read your poem , seeing someone else in pain , that’s so difficult .

    You really have a good way with words , in this one 🙂

    • rebmasters

      It is a bit sad, but also full of love I hope x

    • L. B. Mek

      Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      (one day
      if your inspiration for these words, reads this Poem
      knowing,
      their innocent, loving smile
      allowed such warmth
      to blossom in your heart
      I hope, in-turn
      there's Pride that swells, deep in their deserving heart)

      • rebmasters

        ♥️♥️♥️

      • shadow424

      • shadow424

        Very nice
        Well crafted
        The reality of trying to save someone



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