Just add water
Location
I am tethered
To this privileged reality of war by the anchor of a pencil digging into my arm
Inhibiting me from drifting to oceans of sleep
The combined accumulation of all
our years of deprivation, the sea
Where my eyes wish to fish for dreams
But exiting this sheltered paradise of a harbor to
cast wider nets is not
permitted some dreams float
within the length of an arm
reflections on the water can deceive
Make you believe
That dragging them onto to the deck
Of your unsinkable ship
Will save them from drowning
Onboard
I love how water
is a necessity to the lives
of us of every poem
why must that simple odorless
liquid be included always
I suppose we die without it
and maybe the poem does too
But you can die with it, too
and you can die without
you must live with it, you must live without