Underwater Mantra

(a line around it) (a line around it)

It was loose in the dark

Floating next to its neighbour

Nothing broken, nothing wrong

Just a thing with no edges

Give it a shore

Give it a shore

Something to lean on

Something to hold

You don't build the water

You don't make it deep

You draw a quiet border

So the small things keep

The pond was here before the name

It will be here

when the work is done

Say what you did

Leave it no smaller

no

smaller,

no

smaller

leave it, leave

it no smaller

Give it a shore Give it a shore

Something

to

lean on Something to

hold

a line around it

the water holds a

line around it

the water holds