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It’s about drowning

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 1 min read

space fins, you dollop your heart paint, electric

On the top of my head

I love your tiny waves

Space and full of time

Drinking it in like oxygen

Like you’re all mine

In my waves, I feel like you are mine

In your waves, it’s like we’re on time

I’m lost without your painted eyes

I’m lost without your mermaid cries

I am dying without knowing your

Beating drums

I know you might be feeling quite lost and glum,

Inside your desert bath of waves on the moon lit space,

Drowning me inside that plane

I’m sorry that you could be lost like me,

One day I’ll find you, mermaid hair, dark and orange and chocolate,

In the new form of space, starry eyed in a bright blue sea.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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