The Strength of Plain Water

you're holding me at arm's length

and i do not have the energy now

- the Want

to insist

Water can erode the iron lock

if she truly wants to

i think i can finally understand.

no one has cared about you

but you, 

and so you are guarded

a Stone.

the Stone resists the Water, but in time -

years, even -

Water exerts her will

boring a path straight thru his heart

even if your name is 

everywhere

even the path i find my feet on

i will swallow the dust of your name

brush it from my skin

lock it into my subconscious 

maybe you will be part of me always

but you will never know it

and i will not admit it

except here on this map of the Change 

where a creek will have your name

i can keep my heart locked behind a wall, too

You didn't invent this

you're nothing more to me now

than the ice-blue line of water

crossing my map, 

a promise i have yet to locate

a destination

one of billions i could choose

remind me: which of us is the Water

and which is the Stone