Water Nature

'Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.' ~A.A. Milne

Water Nature
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

In an ocean so vast, you lay darling

As undiscovered as the depths of the tides

That wave the boats home, men tossing their nets

Around themselves, in a tight noose,

Around my neck, and your face

Is painted behind these eyelids, while I weep

May morning return you to me.

It is the water’s nature, don’t you know it?

To take up everything in its crash

And now that you have left me a shell, a story

Don’t stray near the land where I don’t wait

Lest morning should return you to me.