How many lullabies of rain drops becoming salt water tides will I be able to sing to you before you are lost?
I believed I'd have forever for you to anchor me to abandoned docks and melting bubbles as your aqua dreams built us wings to soar in teal horizons. My soul breathed eons of smog glitter comets while you clung to my neck and buried your watermelon scented curls into the life raft of my arms- the boat that would never sink because you needed me.
My heart beat the cadences of starfish floating in the gentle ebbing of your eyes as you stared into aquarium windows and learned to smile with seaweed sparkles. It was so easy plan the way you'd grow up as you fit into the patchwork stitches of my arms. As the tune of Christmas music rang in my ears while your spider leg lashes blinked softer and softer, I imagined the summers when I'd stand on chlorine floors and catch you as you leapt- soaring through the blue tiled liquid into my arms.
Three more months of swimming under mermaid scaled stars as your speckled pink nails wrap around my hand, a perfect fit in my fifteen year old palm. Only three more months of making you a vibrant pink and purple and blue bracelet, a never ending chain of my love for you- and the way I'll always be there for you, even hundreds of miles away.
I wish you were staying with me- and your family wasn't moving- I want to babysit you and your brother and to have to reprimand you for cheating at the games we play. I want to be able to count the clouds in your brothers eyes, every facet of his cheeks as he builds Thomas the train block towers for me.
What if when I see you again- your angel face and heaven curls has become someone I don't know, and your handprint no longer fits mine?
What if when I see you again, you ask me to save you but I have to tell you that without you in my life- I've already drowned?
Author notes
word bank
all but blood, fever
A contest entry
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this is wonderful, but please explain a bit more, K?
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You do seem to have a future in writing. There is a soft, delicate way to your words. Perhaps your are a young poet that can make us smile.
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Thank you!
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TOTAL - 69/70
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you have quite a talent with word banks
thanks for entering
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I love the detail and the imagery. Brilliant piece, thankyou for entering my contest x
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The first line is excellent. I love the ending of 'before you are lost'. it has such a prose-ish feel to it.
the boat that would never sink because you needed me
-Awwww
in the gentle ebbing of your eyes as you stared into aquarium windows and learned to smile with seaweed sparkles
-That. Is. BEAUTIFUL.
this was absolutly stunning. I really, really hope you win.
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