Watery Truths

The intimacy you create is suffocating

I hold back, I spin

I take the wheel

Without letting you know

Its like you’ve opened floodgates,

I let your waters surge

Being careful, so careful

But slowly, slowly

You stir me

And you have me

But still my truths are tainted

And maybe your honesty frightens us both

We let it inhabit every space in the room

Its presence is suffocating

Things as always have changed again

My tenuos, trembling, tainted truths,

Threaten to shatter what went before

Like all good relationships,

Ours never stays still

Like water, mutable and morphing

Changing into the shape of its surroundings.