Rock and Water

 

all in time,
held suspended
in sweet motion
like the rise and fall of tides
two souls calling out
reaching for each other

inner echoes beckoning
from deep depths
like seashells held
close to listening ears

want and desire
patience and love;
everything and nothing
not making a sound
making a sound

stone thrown
skipped across
rhythmic tidal face
like gentle kisses
tasting liquid flesh

stone comes to sink
at last swallowed
by deeper water
circles of response
deep dwelling rings
felt everywhere

surface penetration
two souls touch
rock and water
lost in sinkable depths
light and firm
exact
once in
in forever

hard and soft
beneath water covers
heart found beating
in the breast of another
tastes of sea salt,
like sweat and motion

waves like circles
and exhausted breath
on warm flesh

water dissolving stone
like sugar and
cosmic release…

 

© 2010 Lyndsey Warren