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[If I Could] Walk on Water
by Meredith C HartwellIt wasn't so long ago,
not really.
I wasn't sleeping.
I think you knew.
Breathe in,
Breathe out
[You breathe out,
I breathe in]
Our lips so close to touching,
my only air was yours.
I wasn't sleeping.
I think I was drowning.
I think you knew.
Driving home from his arms,
your song rushed through me.
I wanted to sing
I wanted to shout it
I wanted to cry for it all
But I could only
exhale.
The night I drowned,
you kissed me in the cool night air,
and I would have died happy.
I cannot remember the words
we traded in the dark.
I swore I'd burn them to memory,
and so never recorded them.
Now, all I know of that moment
is how little air was between us.
The heat off my skin fogs the windshield.
I think I have been holding my breath
since then. 09/10/2008 Author's Note: Everything works in your arms.
Posted on 09/15/2008
Copyright © 2025 Meredith C Hartwell
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Amy Wustrin on 09/16/08 at 07:43 PM aww. this is beautiful, mere. absolutely heartwrenching in all the best ways. that song also happens to remind me of a certain someone too. arent we lucky? ;) |
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