Sestina

Soul Water

Emily-Amber Holmes

Come across the waters

which only one can only see in death.

Can you hold onto the desire

surrounding the cold soul?

Watch the gentle spirits

flutter across the wind.

I shook at the fire coated wind

that burned me like acid water

I wanted to kidnap the spirits

and hold them for death

while their souls

fulfill their desire.

I always wondered what their desire

would be. If they wanted to kill the wind

or find where their soul

lived. I thought it was under water

since that's where their death

occurred. I wanted to be a spirit.

I held my breath for the spirits

and I wanted to hold them with the desire

to keep them away from death

and cuddle them against the wind.

I let myself fall into the water

and wander to all the dark souls.

I wanted to strangle my soul

for the spirits

wanted to water

their longing desire

of the shivering wind

and cold death

A death

that would make a soul

shiver from frosty winds

and make a spirit

cry. I wanted to show them the desire

of dying in the water

But the souls were spirited

away, and the death was desired,

but nobody can water out Hell's fire.