This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2000-09-12 17:06:50 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Swimming For It

It is only a parable, but we all wanted to be Noah without being good at least not good enough So, when the flood came we were left dog paddling outside the ark as raucously as innocent fishes Soon enough, we developed lungs to rage at heaven It is only a fairy tale But we are all Pinocchio in the belly of  the whale building fires to make society sneeze so that we can be spun out back on the path to becoming real It is only a story but, like Alice, we grew large up and up, filled with ourselves Startled at the size we cried into our tea and then, when daddy died we  regressed, became tiny again amoebic, floating  in amniotic fluid drowning in spilled tears until we reached the shore became marooned in forgiveness learned to grow native flowers to make rain

Copyright © September 2000 Rachel F. Spinoza


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