I caught myself wondering
what it is like
being water.
Not what it would be like.
And then I realized
I was explaining—
or something was,
and has been for a while—
explaining
what it is like being water.
Someone invisible
has been coaching me.
I’ve been a good student
listening so carefully because
I need to know.
Something at my core
yearns for this.
Water wants me to know
what it is
and
that I am THAT too.
Look, it says
like a swimming coach
This is water.
This is what it is like
to be water.