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For Libby, Cat, and Gumbie.
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OBD

Brackish Blackish Watery Ways
Torment Our Troubled Friend.

She struggles free.

Surrounded Stunned Subdued.
Stranglion Entanglion Strugglion.
Swirlion Twirlion Swallowin.

No Rhyme. 

No Reason.

All Fades from Site. 

Free from thought, Free from sight.

No more struggles,  Empty of fight.

She lays quietly, waiting for Her Friend.

He fails to show himself. 

Crafty bastard never on time. 

Always too soon; Always too late.

She struggles to shore. 

Burnt Fingers, Singed Nails.
Clinging strongly to sandy hairs.
A touch of hope; A whiff of fresh air. 

She finds herself standing on sandy waters,
Just far enough to be stuck in muddy waters.

Each raining droplet stings cleanliness into her soul. 

Each tidy droplet pulls her feet toward murkier waters.

One Beautiful Droplet,
See-ing clearly through murk and mire,
Releasing frustrations reneging contracts,
Rushes Swooshes Tushes saving her always.

Only OBD, that's all it takes.
The order is broken. 

The tide turns rushing in and out.
Begging its brethren to run only out to see.

They feal* to hear.
They fail to listen.

They roar and roar
About her seas.

Pushing her in.
Them pulling her out.

A balance is established.
Stable is she.

For one droplet, OBD.

by Huh Chuh @ huhchuh@yahoo.com © May 2002


*Gaelic word "feal" short for --  "fealla"  meaning treachery
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MF2/mf05.html#MF.F