Buoyant

How do you feel as you reel in my words
From the sea that is the page before thee?
As you filter through your catch does any of it snatch
A recognition that you’ve been there too?
Will you keep what I wrote
Or throw it overboard to float on the surface of your conscience?
Can you fathom the meaning that is teeming
In the nets sprawled on the deck?
But that is the risk I took
By raising shoals of verses meant to be fished by you
Expecting understanding to emerge anew
To know me all you had to do was look
Will you flinch at what is found?
Will revelations abound?
Will you accept without regret–?
All the while I nervously smile
And display a heart shaped like yours
That beats and bleeds
As it gives and concedes
I don’t expect
To be met halfway
For my words are yours
To keep without condition
All strings cut
As you keep trawling the ocean