First Swim

It was you that made me fall,

off the ledge of reason…

You looked me in the eyes,

and said, The water is fine.

I became captivated by that one single line.

 

So I didn’t see the treacherous waves

before me.  Instead, I took your hand softly,

and emerged too deep…

 

That’s when I had difficulty breathing,

brutal water shoved against cheek

and you were nowhere for me to see.

 

I could not swim until that point,

when I realized I was in the water alone,

beating the fierce currents on my own.

 

See it all happened so fast,

and before it started,

I was introduced to its’ last.

 

I learnt to adapt quickly, as I begun to

form my hands, and glide my feet,

as the water clung against me like a sheet.

 

I let the waves caress the curves of me.

I pushed forth stronger until I could see…

the horizon that shined before me.

 

It was then I realized, with land in sight,

I had beat the worse that was coming to me,

I just needed to stand up on my own two feet.



Tanette 2010