Cannonball

You're magnified in light

I watch you wade inside

I memorize the way the lake looks and your hands look in it

I could trace a line

Around your shoulders and spine

I fantasize, I wish you knew what I was thinking

I wish that you would hold me

Without grace and ungently

I wish you'd wrap me up tight

I wish you'd hold me inside

I could watch you dive

For the rest of my life

I see you like a photograph or a hologram

When you cannonball and it

Splashes and the light

Catches, outstretched on the wet

Grass, it's obvious I want you bad

I wish that you would hold me

Without grace and ungently

I wish you'd wrap me up tight

I wish you'd hold me inside

I had doubts when you coaxed me out

I can't swim so I float on my back

I watch you butterfly from the corner of my eye

I did not know you were so

Good, I wish you could teach me

I hold my breath and touch the bottom of

The lake, I swear I'd stay, I'd stay

I'd stay forever if you asked me to

But I wish that you would hold me

Without grace and ungently

I wish you'd wrap me up, tight

I wish you held me inside