LIKE YOU

By Noe Dela Cruz

 

I am like you, water.

Staying still on calm, quiet days,

Dancing on rough, windy nights.

I have a heart as deep as the ocean,

confusing to those who don’t know me well,

mysterious and yet difficult to understand.

I never want others to see what I truly am.

Only reflecting a clear image of that person instead.

I surround people’s lives and their fate,

rests upon me.

I can be kind and nurturing when I embrace them,

submerging negative thoughts and actions.

I can be cold as ice,

taking a life as simple as that.

Like you water,

without a ripple of emotion,

I drown them in their sorrows,

not feeling a hint of regret.