Oil and water

You and me
We are separate
Like oil and water
Trapped in a vessel
that is my own body
Under pressure
Yet contained
You try to help me
and I slide away
Like oil
and water

I have never tasted
Anything so sweet
as your touch on my heart
a sense of love
for another substance
the feel
of your fragrance
is blessed on my frame

How can two such different
things
share one body?
How can I contain the pressure?
There is too much of both for
a tiny space.
The paralysis of choosing but one
Reigns over my decision
Because
if I'm honest,
I like it
when they are both there,
then I know
which one's which.

The ocean waves

A flood
Rising
Rising
Rise-
Gulp!
Help, help, I can't get any air
Get me out of here!
Please anyone!
No one can hear me scream
No one sees me down here
Underwater
in the deep

Push push
Patricia
Swim up until you see the sun
Kick kick hard
against the weight
of the water
Shoving it behind
Thrust up

Break
Surf
Gasp
Icy cold air
into my chest
Sweet relief wipes me clean
The warm light
of the sun shines
on my beaded salty face
and ahhh
it is heavenly

How easy it is when you are in the sun
Looking down over the waves
Their mighty ripples took tame and rhythmic
But ah the terror when one is beneath
And though hope there may be
It is still a breath away