Buoy of Life

I'm trapped under water and can’t pierce

the watery veil obscuring my vision

I can’t behold what I don’t want to heed

I don’t want to glimpse you swimming

in a different pond with a new mermaid

tears submerge my soul in deep drenching

I can’t absorb the flood of rough water

which waves and undulates toward me

trying to flush my refusal to acknowledge

the sodden storm encroaching on my sanity

if I look the other way, I’m not drowning

but when I am thoroughly water-logged

by your soggy saturation of my heart

the downpour will cease and I will survive

hanging on with desperation to the buoy of life.