It wasn't entirely intentional,
Not altogether accidental.
I don't know quite where my motives lay
I'm not sure quite what I felt,
As I lingered, languidly,
And watched,
Its futile limbs contorting, flailing,
Almost exaggerated,
Almost unnecessary
I watched as it struggled desperately
To cling to all it knew
All it could ever know
I watched passively, pensively
As, on the artificial, unforgiving surface
Dreary and barren under the
Harsh fluorescent lights
Its grip faltered and failed
And though I knew very well
The inevitability of circumstance
I contemplated pleading indirectness
As crystal clarity rose up and engulfed it
The slightest of gestures,
Would have set it free
And yet, because I wondered at it
I watched it wash away;
Life.
Maybe it didn't make a difference,
I might not have changed my world.
But, as I am distant,
Who am I drowning?
Not altogether accidental.
I don't know quite where my motives lay
I'm not sure quite what I felt,
As I lingered, languidly,
And watched,
Its futile limbs contorting, flailing,
Almost exaggerated,
Almost unnecessary
I watched as it struggled desperately
To cling to all it knew
All it could ever know
I watched passively, pensively
As, on the artificial, unforgiving surface
Dreary and barren under the
Harsh fluorescent lights
Its grip faltered and failed
And though I knew very well
The inevitability of circumstance
I contemplated pleading indirectness
As crystal clarity rose up and engulfed it
The slightest of gestures,
Would have set it free
And yet, because I wondered at it
I watched it wash away;
Life.
Maybe it didn't make a difference,
I might not have changed my world.
But, as I am distant,
Who am I drowning?
