Porcelain Tub: Photographs and Poem by Charley Czajkoski

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It’s full

Enveloped in warmth

Difficult to breath 

Held close

Heat beginning to burn

An instant calm

It’s draining

Refreshing air

Difficult to breath

New sensation

Cold beginning to freeze

An instant calm 

It’s circling 

Skin dry 

Goose bumps appearing 

Free of weight

Emptiness beginning to set in 

An instant panic

Grasping as it slips down the drain

Watching as it circles 

Round and Round 

and Round

Round 

And all you can do is watch

As the last bit of that warmth 

Is sucked down 

Dark

You are left

Porcelain cold

Hard

Candles flicker

Laying there

Trying to grasp

What is gone