My Second Home

As I plunge into its deep blue depths

My eyes close in delighted bliss

The coolness sweeps around me

Engulfing my inflamed body

I feel weightless in it’s expanse

Free to swim and play to my hearts content

I dip my head under to and notice

Green plants swaying to my strokes

I watch my hair trail around me

As I float on its shiny blue surface

My face is warmed by the sun

Yet cooled in this aqua embrace

Again I dive down into darkness

How far do I dare to go?

The light dims as I swim deeper

What will l find in this sunken world

I should have been a mermaid

So great is my love of water

Exploring vast bottomless oceans

Feeling as one with its sea life

Would I be friends with great whales?

Perhaps join with the dolphin pods?

Or travel the seas with pirate ships

But not as a famed siren… of course!

Or maybe I’d live in the rivers

That span our great southern land

And visit deserts or the tropics

Along with snowy mountain lakes

As I dream and swim I see bubbles

Those tiny circles of glass-like air

Spin and drift to the light of the surface

And I guess it’s time I joined them

I reluctantly rise on the waves

As the tides carry me in to the shore

I search for my towel on the now damp sand

As the sun sinks lower and lower

Already I’m planning my next foray to this:

My second home.