One of the most beautiful things about metaphors is that they can have different interpretations.  I wrote this as a metaphor for tears, but everyone has different interpretations.  I appreciate that people take from it what they will.




WATER(doesn't)WORKS

Here,

In this desolate desert,

Everything seems so pointless,

So lonely;

And I’m so alone.

And in this parched land,

Somehow I can’t help

But turn the knob on the spigot;

I avoid it for as long as possible,

For once started, 

It can’t be shut off.

I turn the knob

And let the water flow—

An endless stream

That soaks into the arid soil

And, like a drop in the ocean,

Improves nothing,

But leaves me empty.

 





Poetry by Nancy Sikora
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Written on 2016-02-19 at 04:16

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one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
WATER (doesn't) WORKS is really good, and the metaphor WORKS. By lord it's sad, as it should be. and why not? it's about emptiness, it's about facing a reality, "a" reality, not the totality.
2016-02-19



What a desolate metaphor. There is water but it's never enough -- only enough to remind you how thirsty you are.
2016-02-19


Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
Interesting. A tap that does not work. maybe that is my problem. A nice piece.
2016-02-19



Tense...will she, wont she? Turn it, turn it....succumb fir a short while....but oh, the consequences
2016-02-19