Looking up at the bottom of a swimming pool 

I'm drowning in mercury

It doesn’t touch me

Like hydrophobic water

I repel

From the wall

I'm a minnow

I can’t breathe

Waiting for the sharks to get me

Rain hits wet skin

Cold pinpricks

Watch the sun sinking 

The wind makes the trees fold 

Like origami

Rustle like mother earth’s skirts 

In a dance slowing, starting, but never-ending

The sky goes dark 

An inky blue veil

Holes in it show us the other side 

What is right and wrong

Up and down 

I float in limbo

Supported by glowing water 

I could fall up 

Flip 

The world with a casual 

Flick 

I'm not cold as long as I stay here 

Everything is quiet 

Underwater 

Muffled gurgles of words formed but never carried 

The spirits of the wind cannot reach us here 

Secrets can stay stuck forever 

Dispersing 

Like oil 

Never mixing

But too thin to

Ever form against me