The Countess of Flatbroke's Treasury of Poems
Still Waters
The flame’s gone out.
It casts no light.
I cast myself
Into the night.
Frail boat I sink
Into the sea.
Still water’s dark.
Still water’s deep.
Asleep I fall.
Asleep I rise.
The cradle tips.
The darkness sighs.
A tumbling child
Wakes in my eyes.
Still water flows.
Still water flies.
And caught beneath
The wing of sleep
I cling
To nothing
Rising.
© R. Nemo Hill
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