7/11/13

Ballast
By Nala Jimway


You were ballast,
you held me
kept me low in the water
safe
serene

but as I grew
as I moved
took on the cargoes of distant lands
of wisdom
and time
and experience

you kept me low
kept me too low
so low
I started to sink.

Now, free of you
free of ballast
I sail

I

sail


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