Protean

You're flowing deep like swirling seas.

Your waves approach my waiting knees.

Beneath your beat I would submerse

And drown below your boundless verse.

Surround me in your turbid sound

And steal me from the barren ground

Of lands that feel not rain's release.

Erode this parched and hollow peace.

Wash away the dunes of doubt

And dowse this desolated drought.

Slip me through unsteady shoals

Into the tides of twining souls.

Slake this ancient thirst in full.

Slay me with your fatal pull.

These eyes shall know their final close

As breath is reft by liquid prose.