Water Envy

I see you splashing
On the surface at me
Flashing your silvery belly then
Diving underneath

(where maybe it is warmer)

I see you gorgeous,
Graceful even,
As you leap onto a breeze only to disappear again

It's clear you are a different sort of creature
The kind I rarely see
But I imagine lives in schools or gangs
Or clusters beneath the sea where I cannot go
And so I try

To be happy just watching you swim
And imagining what you do
Beneath the tides
When you aren't flying me

But I am only air
And dream as I might
.......................between your flights of fancy
You don't need me
To breathe

And so I,
With the lonely patience of sky,
Wait for you to surface again







by me