Waters underneath

You stiffen
while the waters churn below
what has been shut in before.

Educated to be a rock against the floods
you stand
stoic.

Everything if fine.

Yet the tides
tossing feelings right below the dermis
mumble the unsettling hidden.

Those feelings
never brought to surfacing,
bleed out
and the embers that burn of you
die out from the seas beneath.

I wish you could burst open
expose yourself to emotion.

Scream what has been sitting inside until
it's out and you are you
no seas beneath
or tidal waves
but blood pumping
skin warm
heart beating with an earthly rhythm.