I was asked this...tell me something most people do not know about you...I thought....Gills! I have gills. As human as I am....gills grow behind both of my ears. Now this was a secret...so be very very quiet about it...sure would not want to make a "splash" now would I?

The cuts ran deep...first to open the flesh to the air...taken was any future...left was all the past...but removed was something else...something of life perhaps or of death unknown...pondering now what each means...that step has been made all to easily...what will God do for the devils win.

The man looking at me of green face...no eyes...and his mouth is missing...who are you I ask the strange photograph...he answers not but only stares at me more...blank and empty but full and questioning...Who are you...again I ask...but again nothing more than lonely skin...I begin to think in my own thoughts...his stare brings me to my own conclusions....Thank you I say to the man in the photograph...another answer made...and all from your empty eyes...

The water seems at peace tonight...but there is the light shining in the distance. I look down. I smile. I fear. He comes at me with arms wide and a smile across his face. His lips meet mine. With an arm he guides me to his ship...I shake my head when I am near...leaning on the side...being touched..kissed....I did not come here for this...I breathe saying...I make you do nothing...he says with force in his movements..I board...walking to a soft place...I take him...as he takes me...a sudden breeze blows across my cheeks...I look up and feel it again. I have been lost again...I back away with anger in my eyes...lust in my limbs...love in my heart...please don't do this again...I leave once more...the water splashing against my feet. The sand feels so warm and inviting...but what is better...the devil or the angel that fights no more for my soul? I sit in the small pool of water...drawing circles in the sand...each wave wipes my shapes away...until it turns to a ship...I look up and see it sailing away...come again to me devil...I have nothing more to lose from you now......or do I?

The sun is hot and here you sit in the shade...warming your feet in the spring water...the light filters through the glimmer of waves and you smile at the idea it leaves...it is all in self desires that the water whirls around your legs and all in fun that you continue...the clouds are so alone when you look up at them...but it never matters to the shadows...for you bring on light only once...then run away and hide for the next welcoming darkness...ahhh devil I say...you have come back to haunt me...again you smile...but where is your ship? A wink and a nod...there it flys in the small spring...invisible to all but shrunk to a mere second...I told you to go away...but here now in the sun warming you are...what is it that you can take or trick out of me...what is it that I need to do to keep you wanting a moment...benevolent tolerance he says....

benevolent tolerance I agree...