Lessons From The Bottom Of The Lake

Lessons from the bottom of a lake

Did I die that day
When she dredged me up?
When I rejected the water that violated my lungs?

To follow my twin brother
Until feet and sand no longer met
Was the tangle of seaweed
My last true caress?

Did it fly that day
My innocence somewhere new
As panic seized my soul
Before mother's rescue?

So capable was I
Before that one embrace
So fragile am I
With knowledge of that place

That place at the silty end
That makes bubbles out of screams
That turns vision to black
And threatens the serene

Did I falter that day
Because he lead me in?

Or maybe I grew the day...

I realized I didn't move with him.