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The Water Heart

July 13, 2015
By NamNguyen BRONZE, Hanoi, Other
NamNguyen BRONZE, Hanoi, Other
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I heard the faint whisper
As the light went out,
As the sky turn vampire black,
As the wind caress,
As the water drop sang,
“Come outside!”

 

The water crashed the ground,
Slashed the ground,
Disrupted the unchanging ground
With its chaos,
Irresponsibility,
Irrationality.
The tears of the long-forgotten heart,
With its hissing scream,
Loud and clear.

 

So I broke the four pale cream walls,
The cage that I should stay inside,
And dash into the rain
To dance like a maniac,
To taste the fang in the air,
To tear the whole world,
To fly as the wind lift me,
And kiss my frozen cheeks.
Feel the water as it slashed through my skin, long thickened;
Feel the water as it pierced my soul, long missing;
Feel the water as it mended my heart, long rotten.
So I lie down
And let the water take me.

 

I hope it take me to the eye of the hurricane.
Where I scream and sing with my fullest of voice and no one can hear me,
Where the torrent washes away all my clothes and paints my skin with stars,
Where the storm blew loose branches I held tight in my right palm,
Where the waves rinsed off the sand in my lungs and turned it to pearls,
Where the only thing pressing me is the burning water,
Where I can rip of the heart that is no longer mine,
Where it gives me
My water heart.


The author's comments:

My first piece here at TeenInk, inspired by a rainstorm


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