Salt Water

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Gone are the days

Where my mind

waded into pools of ebony

Drowning in the fear that

the shape of my world

Was being reduced to the size

Of a goldfish bowl

That

The years spent trying

To set my ocean free

Were wasted while

I was swept away by the riptide

Stuck at the bottom of a neon aquarium

Where life itself seemed fluorescent

Until I realized how little

I really knew

How unsure of

Everything

I really was

And to be defined

By the glass walls that encased

My now chlorine steeped thoughts

Is enough to shatter

The very foundation of my

Essence

Gone are the days where my

Fish bowl turned aquarium

Seemed to offer the universe

And to dive right in

To the thousands of droplets of those I've met in my life

And to let them be my ocean

I have finally learned

To swim



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