Poem: An Ocean

[alee_grrl]

This comes out of late night ruminations of the common saying "words can only hurt you if you let them."






An Ocean

I've tried to turn my ears off
to coat my brain, my skin in Teflon
see the words slide off, but
still they sink into my skin, my soul.
And culture is an ocean, with words the water
molecules that flow between us.
Water can cool us, nourish us and heal us;
catch us in its undercurrents,
pull us down, til we are confused and lost;
But don't worry the water can only hurt you
if you breathe it in.

Comments

[calissa]

An excellent analogy. I quite like the last two lines.

[alee_grrl]

Thank you.

[fyreharper]

Oof, yes.

[fyreharper]

And that closing. I mean it's not like we need to breathe, noo...

[alee_grrl]

I'm so glad to hear that the tone came through on the closing. I wasn't sure it would.