The white white walls <br />of the swimming pool <br /> <br />are on fire <br />with the reflections <br /> <br />of the water <br />distorting our <br /> <br />every movement. <br /> <br />Flames of water <br />dance upon walls <br /> <br />as you emerge <br />from these Sunday waters <br /> <br />like a Venus <br />in a clinging wool costume. <br /> <br />Me clammed up <br />tight as a shell <br /> <br />unable to <br />tell <br /> <br />you <br />'I love you! ' <br /> <br />Now far away from <br />that time <br /> <br />the watery flames <br />of my pre-pubescent <br /> <br />desire <br /> <br />still burns <br />through all those years. <br /> <br />I forever nine... <br />...you forever ten.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flames-of-water/
