Facing Water

smoke swirls

laughing eyes

crinkled cocoa face

fish at her feet

bitter competitor

silently glares

sunburnt face

no fish today

fog thickly grips

a quarter mile out

soft white face

form diminishing

black eyed child

caramel skin

pretty face

gawks at my bike

holding hands

stiff, forced

sad faces

dying love

I smile

but meet

blank faces

so I greet dogs

bitter breeze bites

my cheeks

cold hot face

pink with sun

dazzling light

dances

on water’s face

my life shimmers

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