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Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2003-04-20 03:43 PM

April
1:
It is afternoon
And for some reason I feel festive.
I am wading
In a shallow pool of seawater.
I feel the shifting sand
Between my toes,
Beneath my feet,
The sandy bottom shaking,
Vibrating,
With the elemental thunder
Of the sea.
It vaguely dawns on me
Why I am there ..
Why I don't want to be there,
That eventually
I will encounter April,
That I know what she will want,
What I will have to do,
Dive into the water
While turning inside out,
And if I try something like that
I will surely drown.
And I dread anything to do with her.
As I splash and play delightedly,
I find thick and mushy blobs
Of something floating in the water.
They smell sweet, like fudge,
Feel Like candy that has not yet set.
But I don't think it's safe to eat them
Since I don't know what they are.
I walk around,
Running my hands,
Combing my fingers through the water.
I stumble on a great enormous bubble,
So thick, so fleshy
That I can not run my fingers through it,
So wide
I can not even reach across it.
And it seems richer
Than all the other candy bubbles
In the water.

2:
Are you ready?
I am startled.
It is April.
The bottom shifts alarmingly.
And the waves
Seem a little higher,
And the water
Feels a little deeper.
Are you ready?
There is annoyance,
Irritation in her voice.
I briefly think
What it would be like to hold her,
But she is imposing and severe;
I dismiss the thought at once.
Are you ready?
I have to get away.
If I could only find the shallows …
The shallows? …
Then I realize
That I don’t know where I am,
And the bottom shakes and shifts,
And I am very frightened.
I am going to drown.
Are you ready?
She seems to sneer contemptuously.
In terror,
About to lose my balance,
I try running through the chest deep water,
Stumbling off in one direction,
Then another;
But I just blunder
Into even deeper water.
Are you ready?
Suddenly the bottom is gone
And I pitch forward.
I know I’m going to drown.
I have no choice
But to dive into the water
And start turning inside out.
Then I realize
That I forgot to breathe before the dive,
And I get stuck doing the maneuver;
I can’t complete the task,
And my terror turns to panic.
I’m going to drown …
The most terrifying death I can imagine.
Reflexively I gulp in water,
Choking and gagging,
Kicking and thrashing.

3:
And then April reaches out.
She takes my hands.
She pulls me through.
She takes me in her arms.
It’s okay …
It’s okay …
It’s okay …
Be still …
Be still …
Be still …

Jaime

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

1 posted 2003-04-20 03:54 PM

nicely written

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2003-04-20 07:06 PM

That's some really vivid dream imagery, Jaime. And of course, it's almost pool time.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

3 posted 2003-04-20 07:17 PM

That eventually
I will encounter April,
That I know what she will want,
What I will have to do,
Dive into the water
While turning inside out,
And if I try something like that
I will surely drown.

I absolutely love these lines, they say so much to me; perhaps not what you wanted them to, but they still say so much.

enjoyed Jaime.

Maree

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

4 posted 2003-04-20 09:19 PM

A good metaphor here - of the season and the sea.

Cor

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