Love is like Water - Cagnazzo (p...

Cagnazzo on the Cypher

I heard an old saying once that love was like water.

We always imagine it to flow, but more often than not,

it is raging, full of rapids, specked with waterfalls,

and when the passion burns bright enough,

the drought will leave you crawling,

begging for even a raindrop on your tongue.

I see now, that love is like water,

and that you

you were my ocean.

 

I imagined one day you and I would rule the world

Enigmatic overarching predicted you that would be my girl

But now the only kingdom I own has drowned in seas of whirls

and I forgot how to swim and retrieve my mindset on the pearls

 

It's a rocky start but, you know, I guess that's how life works

Let your guard down for a second and you're hit with waves of hurt

I pulled down the moon for you and the tides have begun to stir

Now I'm struggling to keep my breath, no scuba tank in this world

 

I had never-ending dreams of the fireworks of your words

But after learning love from you I never expected the worst

The whiskey in my throat dehydrates my mind of the worms

the parasites that you left that continue to eat my work

 

the bacteria of the soul that consumes what's left of my worth

and now the sickness reminds me of the breath of life that you were

I lost my faith a while back but memories still cause me worry

And you restored it only to crush it, making my poetry wordless

 

I guess it's no use really to cry these rivers of spilled milk

But what can you do when your drain gets pulled and you're unfilled

It's like a windmill, spinning back and forth on the reel

But what use is the propeller if there's no wind on the wheel

 

I'm not sorry that I loved you, just sad you didn't know how I feel

I won't try to go and hunt you but I want you to know it was real

I was an torn open envelope who just needed a wax seal

A phantom thief like you is versed in the hearts that you steal

 

A cat burglar, stretching her legs to catch mice standing still

But the corpse of a rodent is not equivalent to the pills

I should know better than chewing Xanax to target pain for a kill

But common sense was lost when you disappeared and I lost my will

 

But enough about heartbreak, I've still got a few stories to tell

How an angel like you took a sinner like me to Heaven from hell

I was broken down badly, automaton gears lost in the mail

My sandcastles were worn by water yet you brought me a pail

 

And so we built empires and harbors from sandstone and heartbreak

How you taught me to rise my sails in windstorms and fight fate

Your eyes were like fountains, seas I came to appreciate

And when our lips pressed together, torrents streamed at mach 8 flow rates

 

You tapped in the reservoirs in my heart, and burst through the gates

Surfed the swamps of my depression, which you learned to navigate

I abdicated my anxiety and leapt toward you on ice skates

Didn't know I was on thin ice till the pond beneath cracked and I sank

 

And so my mind became waterlogged, dead goldfish floats in the tank

So I begged you to stay but I knew I was walking the plank

But I know I never really had the chance to properly thank

you for your love making me feel higher than the Mont Blanc

 

But it's funny how I see your face in every bottle I drank

Even though it's clear by now you didn't feel the same way

If you find a man who loves you like I did and do everyday

I pray you'll be as happy as you once made me, swimming through the gray