03/21/02

		'evolving'

i want to drown
to fill up with dark water
so that it pours from my mouth
clear, pure, ever-flowing

i want to plunge
within the cold, dark water.
let it cover me
surround me

fill my ears, my nose, my mouth
make all around me muted silence
to hear the strange, beautiful
calls of my brothers

i want to be one of them.
let it move me
carry me away
from the shore

so that i may swim
the watery depths
unfetered

let my hair, everything...
flow away from me

perpetually slow i move
springing up to breathe
in the cold air
shocking to my lungs
and delicious.

			© Andrea K