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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