The weight within her.
Thrown into the river,
A stone is tied to her feet.
Her hands flail
She gasps for breath
And swallow water
Her eyes turn white
She resists
No more.
A flash.
The father figure she never had
The brother she always wanted
The constant companion she always needed.
He was there by her side
When she needed him
To dance, to drink.
To rise, to sink.
To laugh and live life.
He is whom she compares her suitors to.
He is whom she falls back on.
He is whom she goes to without fail.
And now he is going to leave her.
Not permanently, but every second without
feels like a year
An aching of the heart that cannot be soothed
by music or booze.
But she cannot promise to wait.
Cause a dam that has a leak
and says it is solid
Its statement does not hold water.
And leaks are easy to spot.
And easy for people to manipulate.
A flash.
She's in a train
Chugging along full speed ahead
A deep ravine looms near
Tracks run to the end
But they can only survive for a little while longer
What is she going to do?
Tick tock tick tock.
Will she jump off the train
and onto solid ground
Or stay on and plunge into the unknown
Where there might be bristles and thorns
Beasts lurking in the shadows
Or plunge into a flowing river
of love that supports her
and sustains her
till she reaches the beach and stands on her
two own feet.
Tick tock tick tock.
