grief card 54

---art and prompt by Felicita Maynard, Revitalizing Water Ritual

We were one

and then the water broke,

and you fell into the lake

so I drank the lake to save you,

but you'd turned into a fish

so I wept back the lake to revive you,

but my tears blurred and hid you

so I dried my eyes to see you,

but the lake was a silent sheet of sky

so I grew wings to find you,

but the bird hungered for blood

so I retrieved my hands to hold you,

but the lake held its secret

so I held my breath to behold you,

but in the lowest pit, the darkest depth,

I could not see you,

Tian Tian,

so I waited and lived you.