soap | Shawn L. Bird

Poem-soap July 20, 2013

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 3:05 pm
Tags: bubble, decision, dream, expectation, hope, life, loss, metaphor, soap

Sitting on a soap bubble

floating in sunshine

reflected glare on the surface

of my seat

blinds me.

I rise on

the iridescent

clarity

of the emptiness

that is my only

safety

from the

inevitable

bursting

fall