Swimming

I miss swimming

I miss floating between sky

Below sky

I miss a still mind

I miss the warm water seeping into muscle and bone

I miss the ease, the closeness of sleep

I miss living inside a perfect moment

Untouched

By time and world

Unworried

Content

Unbroken

My true self

Truly living

Seen

Now the water becomes a trial

Tests me

I expose

A falsehood

A twisted disguise

The mask beneath my clothes

Watch them watch me

Shrink as I am seen unseen