she looked out the window at the world
slanted and cock-eyed careening away at alarming speed
the greens and browns of surburbia
speckled with the blues of swimming pools
brimming with chlorine and lazy summer affluence
Her eyes traveled out and out
to the far reaches of the distant horizon
she was mesmerised by the sky:
a strong, flat and steady blue,
white clouds bobbing cheerfully in languid clumps
then she realized that it wasn't the sky at all
it was a vast lake stretching miles into the ether
those clouds were far above
yet appeared to sit within it
lake and sky were one indistinguishable mass
water wed to air
you and i, she thought
we are lake and sky
fathoms apart
seamlessly bound to form the heavens
blue and white and shining in the sun
sparkling and waiting for the storm to come
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