My Best Friend’s Brain

Below a glossy canvas

Lurks a dark undercoat

Cool paint brushing

Against the salty seabed

Waters change with

The clouds – nature’s kites

A tsunami of feelings

Bulge and smash

Against electrifying currents

Moods like tides

Rise and fall

Rise and fall

Rain splatters like grey paint

Against her face

Waves of pain crash against

Jagged cliffs – those tenacious teeth

Jutting out

Into darkening skies

The storms of life

Until sunrays filter in

Threads of light

Thin as cobwebs

Illuminating the pastel picture

Her stomach undulating

As she laughs

Like a jellyfish

Propelling itself

In any direction it pleases

Around speckled fish

And curling seaweed

And creatures that glow

Miles deep with their bioluminescence

An ocean so full of life

And power

Like the consequences

Of a brush stroke

Memories wash ashore

A soggy pink shoe

And crumbling shells

A rusty shovel, too

I’m buried in the sands

Of the past

But the ocean never forgets

Soon the tide will carry

Everything back out

To rejoin the vast sea

And the mural will be complete.

Katy Thompson

Block: 3

March 5, 2012