from the book of water

I am water

I am blue, 

I am green

I am liquid,

I am steam 

I am Ice

Too many things

More than what you see

More than what you realize

Many have held me

But just for a while

For no one has kept me

I've slipped through their hands.

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I am a child, I am crone

A newborn, a corpse

A nun, a man with a gun 

A lover, a hater 

A poem, a letter 

A kiss, a tear

A river, an ocean 

Far too loud

To ever be ignored

Far too interesting

To ever be bored

Far too much

To fit in one vessel

Far too elusive

To ever grasp my nature

Far too complex

To understand my essence

Far too much mine

To ever be somebody else’s

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