Thank you. You've given me something precious - an unexpected (though often sought) epiphany.
The source is from whence the truth came. Why did I expect to receive it from somewhere else?
It was heavy and full of that specially blended syrup that makes nonsense easier to swallow with minimum after taste.
I ate, no drank, no swam in it. Dived in day after day with a smile plastered across my face.
"Swim with me!", I cried.
Giddy, I called for others to share in what was to become my near drowning.
Most of them could not even swim...
I eventually came to despised the way your artificial honeyed words made me feel perpetually sticky.
Everything began to cling to me: your lack of joy, pessimism; your utter negativity.
I waded in, now I am sinking, drowning, forgetting I know how to swim -
how to regurgitate and separate your bile from mine-
give you back what I chose to take.
I raise my head and you place your fingers over my connections to life.
It is now clear that you never wanted me to live... without you.
I refuse to swim in the carefully seasoned molasses of your smugness until we both can no longer breathe.
You at last utter an unexpected (though often sought) epiphany.
I reach and grab for that which you could have never seen.. my life preserver - me.