Drowning in Bliss

Madelene Przybysz

I went for a walk to find a new devotion

Looking down empty streets and corridors

Stepping on squeaky floorboards

I lost all kinds of emotion

My feet hit the pavement stumbling barefoot

Finding sanctuary among the open windows and locked doors

I came to a body

So vast and long

It gazed at me.

I tried to wrap my arms around the ocean

So sweet and so blue

But my wingspan would not reach

Kissing my feet upon the sand

It calls me closer

Grasping my ankles

And then my waist as I began to wade

Further and further

Away from the shore of lost human connection

I am swept under by its embrace.

Currents rush past me as I was caught by its loving gaze

Pulling me closer in the undertow

Closer to its heart in the deep blue