My Neighbor's Pool

sacred sunbathing

Had to publish this without thinking or else I never would. Enjoy!

I guess everything doesn't have to lead to something.  I guess some things are for the fun of it now. 

I guess I've worrying about what others think of me too much, dipping my toe in other's pool a little to often to check the temperature 

Meanwhile my own pool needs tending. I haven't yet cleared the leaves from the last season or clarified the cloudiness that's been there since a long time's past. 

There's still mold forming in the corners and my privacy fence isn't high enough. My neighbors haven't earned the privilege of seeing my sunbathe naked.

I'm still worried about the chlorine levels when sea salt will do just fine. 

But it stings on open wounds as it should,  because one should know when one is bleeding and accepting of the pain that comes with healing.  

I could be at the beach, yet I'm sitting here worried about the temperature of my neighbor's pool and although the beach isn't going anywhere, those neighbors will. 

Or I will. The truth is somebody's going to move on. The pain is that somebody's got to grow past where they are with another, and that process rarely brings along the other.