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vixengrl

(2,686 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:56 PM Jun 2016

Were

The flood of the
dammed fluidity
overflows
the bed it
should have
stayed,
inconvenient perhaps,
but less terrible
than the chaos
that was made
when the force
so firmly held
broke out
from the unnatural
wall it slammed
against a direction
never intended
were it never dammed.

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