Love Poem: As I Pour Water Into the Cup
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Written by: Marty King

As I Pour Water Into the Cup

you keep me here
begging at the bush
as it still blossoms....
commemorating when
you vanished

i remember the night
when i cried and let the
tears fall strategically in
the center of the dent left
on the pillow that you slept 
on

some nights, i would just sit
up and watch the streetlight 
spotlight the radiance of your
gentle being while praying to
God to strengthen the foundation
of our bond

forever had potential with us, and
i put in some work trying to etch that
dream into infinity

but alas you were no competition for
the sun, and i apparently represented
the clouded obstruction of your view

it was then that i learned to add 
refreshing colors to the thriving 
center of myself for the necessary
sake of comfortably being....

moving forward has been like pouring 
water into a cup since then....and wherever
it flows within me provides the essential
cleansing that makes it possible for me to
exist in forward motion and its eye opening
continuum....