Under the Surface

Rocking at the edge
I want to plummet through the balminess of a celestial fog.

Chaotic stillness
Night cloaks Aquarius
“Can I stay here with you forever?” I ask my attestation
Everything is in perfect synchronicity.
Waiting for me, for just this moment
frozen, is the infinite abyss of time.
No longer a ship passing through.

I dive in with perfect alignment
Sway and dance
Float and sink
I’m being pulled downward toward a feeling I can’t grasp
Pure love and joy wash over me as
The wavy moon waxes and smiles above me through undulating curves.
As I extend my hands to come up, I reach for my reflection. But just then,
I feel myself shiver betwixt terror and wonderment as I see her eyes have life within them.
She looks back and reaches down to pull me up.
I realize she is not me. I am her.
I have become the reflection.
Damned forever to follow her in the shadows.