Downside Up

He empties all the water bodies
Pours them in one giant tumbler
And splashes the sky with the salty reality
To wake it up from its day-dream of existence

Sits back and watches
The fishes glide on fins
The birds swim with wings
Where the puddles don’t have to be stepped in
And the smoke filters through the water
The drifting water weeds hang from the sky
like giant curtains dividing man and mind
The corals find a home in the stars
Those superheroes swim to our rescue

Until it all falls back to rest
Like the water spilt from the bottle
of that black-eyed child