For All The World To See

"The Sea Inside"  Painting by Samy Charnine

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 105

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”  ~Sylvia Plath

My heart was always in a fish bowl

for all the world to see

  you did not see it streaming down my face

for it flowed throughout my poetry

this world is a poetic ocean

deep with sorrow

yet filled with blessings inside a net

we swallow a whiskey bottle full of lies

to spit out a glass half empty of true regret

life can be like swimming lessons

with a teacher that cannot be found

that is how I learned to swim in tears

and hold my breath uttering not a sound

yet even in my silence

I learned how to be truly heard

painting feelings across the page

filled with the written word

for my heart was always in a fish bowl

for all the world to see

you did not see it streaming down my face

for it flowed throughout my poetry.