pour
from my soul
unimpeded
try not to foresee
the erosion
and other
collateral damage
or the valve will shut
again.
the surge is bound to be
powerful,
leaving things
not
as
they
were
holding back flow
creates issues of its own;
less noticeable, perhaps,
but destructive.
differently destructive.
would be better had the original
natural
flow
been left to go
where
it
willed
or where gravity
willed
it
to
go
in the first place.