Leonard's Thirst

And I drank this cup of water

And it was good

But the thirst was from seeing this water

This

I understood

Still

I want this water

To see

to drink

to be

the water that gave that thirst to me

But that drank drink was but a sip

Now this thirst

Exists

As a Pacific empty

Thirsting

for more of that drink

The sight of water

The sip of water

Here I thirst more

for

a rousing drink of that water

that water that was good to me

But my longing thirst

has stranded me on a

fool's drained sea of broken grains

That drink

did not exist

That sip was neither sip

nor drink

nor water, the water seen

Delirious from thirst

I still thirst

For the water never meant for me