Poem! 'Fluid Dynamics'

[quinara]

I wrote a poem for sb_fag_ends (the DW site for which has somewhat died, I fear; sing out if you miss it and we'll try harder!). We're on Sumerian Proverbs this month, after brutti_ma_buoni uncovered a load, of which the the summary for this poem is one.

G; free of stuff needing an AO3 warning (but gloomy); Buffy POV in S6-ish; free verse with a slightly concrete edge, because I was experimenting.

I looked into the water. My destiny was drifting past.


Fluid Dynamics.

I used to stare at falling water – stare and watch it fall
I used to hope I wasn’t anywhere
                                                            at least not here
                                                                                  not now
I didn’t have a destiny
I couldn’t have
not dead                   and still
                two times
                                                  brought back.

So little did I know.




You used to stare at me when I was falling
                                                                            here
                                                                            still here
                                                                                    and now
Each night I fought you fought with me
                                    the falling, rushing parts.
We were awash and bright with steel.


                                                              Now
I feel your eyes on me – blue water
                                                              now
                                      a dark, wide blue
the gravity
is rushing me
                    to this

Was this my destiny?
To fall
                    and find you here?


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Comments

[quinara]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I don't know how far my reading of it gets, but I like your thoughts!