A Woman Unbothered

A woman in a blue silk dress

Floats halfway submerged in sunlit green waters

Blonde hair moving slowly like a golden aura

Highlighting the golden flecks in her eyes

The birds overhead scream their warnings

Her ears submerged she doesn’t notice them

Hands making little hellos to the fish below her who say nothing

Her pale skin starts to turn pink the pre-curser to red that runs to raw

Freckles falling forward

She kicks her legs just enough to cause ripples

Causing lily pads a while away sway seconds after

Frogs with secrets in their throats

Disturbed only enough to miss the fly passing them

Lucky one-sided

The next one won’t find the same god-given gift

Turtles with moss coating their shells swim alongside the women

Wondering why something so divine

Floats in their teaming waters

They pass by silent in their scrutiny

She simply sighs

Hot air going into cold lungs

All she can hear is her own heartbeat in the water

Unsteady

Maybe she can stay here forever

Until her bones become a sandy bottom

Or maybe she will leave when the sun starts to dip below the earth’s embrace

Leaving the Moonlite waters alone in their masterpiece

The small child riding over the bridge watches her with wide eyes

Knowing he will never know the answer to this pondering thought

He only powerful enough to observe

This service

Like church

Mother Mary

Drowning her sorrows

In sunlight and green-toned water

8 feet deep and narrow

He crushes flower petals as he rides his cherry-red bike into a sunset languid in its departure

Chasing him home

Leaving her to memory

Unbothered

Model: Elizabeth Jordan @eliiijo