Above the water
Publication date: 2021-10-01
Title: Above the water
Type: Poetry
Publication: ShabdAaweg Review
URL: https://shabd.aaweg.com/poems/aldas/above-the-water/
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Above the water
Blue lights full of bright pictures
swim among the ocean of colours.Numbers, words and symbols make up
the vastness of the social canvas. Onlinewe took our lives, a single drop
in the melting oceans full of plastic lies.It floods our space. With our heads in the clouds
we don’t see the wateralready reaching our knees. Deep down –
smiles hide failures and hearts mask bruiseson our backs. But not all can swim; some are
seasick, the ocean isn’t worth the stars, so stopjumping up to pose for a smile
when you can barely hold your headabove the water.