Water,
What do you know?
Carrier of life,
Liquid Love.
Offer you to a seedling, and a
New Universe expands.
Offer you to a child on a hot summer's day to jump into,
and their delight EXPLODES!
Offer you to a sailing vessel
and it will glide ...
gracefully,
touching
and moving through a treasure trove of
ancient droplets,
evaporated
then rained down again, and again, and again
since the dawn of time.
What do you know?
Liquid Love -
wise and MaGicaL.
My body contains your wonder,
though my hands cannot hold you.
You hold creatures and microbes of
greatest and minutest of
size and imagination.
And as I give you my back facing body
and full trust,
you will f l o a t me.
When I offer my hands to hold you,
you quickly disappear
between my fingers.
My vessel contains more of you
than any other substance that
makes me,
me.
Though it seems you can continue existing
as you always have done -
without me.
Water.
What do you know?
Carrier of life,
Liquid Love.
© Mary Lydia Ryan 2020
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