Water Has No Secrets NaPoWriMo #13

Water has no secrets.

Fish, stones, the wide winds –

it shares with them equally.


I have this feeling near water

like I can say anything

and it won’t judge.


As I touched ripples across water’s skin,

it tasted me and found me

still a little green

like a banana picked too early.


Water has a way of knowing too much.

Not only can it keep no secrets –


it told all mine to the fish and stones

and the licking winds


so now the creek, the river

and the entire Pacific Ocean

know how impossibly long and durably

I have loved you.


JPW , NaPoWriMo  4/13/2020

Being Found

 You can’t play hide and seek

with yourself forever.

Eventually the thunder reaches into

your secret hollows and slumbering roots.

   

       Eventually

       the years jump out to meet us,

       whether we accept them or not.

The rest of the task is learning which side

a gate opens out on while unlearning

what it meant to be lost.

J. Pratt-Walter, ©  2019