tasteless by Abhishek Raol

Tasteless

By Abhishek Raol

Never heard a person resent it’s taste

Never heard a person find it delicious

Like nothing in the form of liquid

Yet this nothing is everywhere

And in everyone

Gushing, rushing, sitting,

Pouring, drowning, draining

Falling, floating, Flying

Flowing through our earths veins

When her heart beats faster

The water moves more violently

Carving canyons and crushing rocks

Pressing sand and wetting beaches

Hiding in caves with spiders and snakes

Or dancing with the dolphins

It’s born in the heavens and falls out of the sky

Like an army of bees attacking the ground

Then making its nest in the soil

Burying in it like a hibernating mole

Until it sprouts its green leaves out of the ground

It’s created its own sea of green far from any ocean

Or walked out of the ocean to eat a city

Forcing its path to the most exotic places

It skis down the tallest mountains

It’s touched the bottom of the ocean

Been eaten and spit out

Cold, hard, warm, wet or light

Bipolar and unpredictable

A monster to some and an angel for all

I need it and I fear it

More powerful and abundant than all

But what does it taste like?