We indulge our passions, unthinking<\/p>\n
Of how it feels to others, I am most alive<\/p>\n
When I am dead underwater, cocooned<\/p>\n
In its gentle caress. No hacking cough<\/p>\n
Not even the pain that shoots<\/p>\n
Down my leg on land. This poem flows<\/p>\n
Like the drops that slide of my back<\/p>\n
As I take a turn and swim away.<\/p>\n
Maybe my father was right, I was born<\/p>\n
On a November morning when the moon<\/p>\n
Looked at me in hiding and told me to float.<\/p>\n
Float away, stay afloat. And that is where<\/p>\n
You will find me, my past draped around me<\/p>\n
Naked and weightless staying afloat.<\/p>\n
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