NaPoWriMo 2022 - Day 29

 April 29, 2022 - write a poem in which you muse on the gifts you received at birth.

Life's Blood

My blood, 
gifted by ancestors
is water
flowing through my veins

I'm drawn to it
mesmerized and spellbound
I've watched oceans
    for endless hours
paddled rivers

and baptized myself 
    in mountain lakes

I feel inexplicably tied
to the sound
    the taste
        the feel
of rain
as it soaks my skin
purifying me over and over

Water is life
...my life