Come swim with me
Dive into my smile
Dance for a while
Allow yourself to be free…
✩
Can’t you see
What you’re doing to me?
Stop, turn-around now and let go
Jump into the current
Go with the flow
Sweeping along effortlessly
Carries afloat…
Breathe calm and slow
Inhale the sweet taste
Of this present moment
Open your heart and fly!
Don’t waste precious time
Wondering why?
Feel real, right now!
Before it’s too late…
Before love fades
Pales into the dusty haze
Another faint sweet memory
Lost in the forgotten maze
Labyrinth of time
Washed away
By the undulating waves
Is but a moment, a droplet
In the ocean-of-eternity
Sea of doubt
Emotional tides of uncertainty
Enduring bondage of the mind…
✩
Come swim with me
Dive into my smile
Dance for a while
Allow yourself to be free… ✩
Review of “Swim” (Friday 4th February 2005)
“Swim” is an invitation — tender, urgent, and poetic — calling the reader into emotional surrender and present-moment awareness. Framed through the sensual imagery of water, movement, and breath, the poem becomes a metaphor for mindfulness: “Breathe calm and slow / Inhale the sweet taste / Of this present moment.”
The author juxtaposes the simplicity of joy — found in dancing, smiling, and being — with the melancholy reality of time’s passing. The fluidity of love and memory is reflected in the lines “Washed away / By the undulating waves,” reminding us that moments not fully lived may dissolve into forgetfulness. This is not just a romantic yearning, but a deeper call to presence — to “feel real, right now,” before life’s emotional tides carry us elsewhere.
The gentle refrain “Come swim with me / Dive into my smile” acts as both an invitation to love and a spiritual urging to return to now — where joy, connection, and freedom reside.
Summary:
“Swim” is more than a love poem — it is a meditation on impermanence and the importance of anchoring oneself in the present. The author uses water as a guiding symbol of emotional and spiritual flow, encouraging the release of resistance and the full embrace of what is.
Conclusion:
At once intimate and expansive, “Swim” reminds us that presence is the gateway to love, freedom, and self-realisation. This poem shimmers with quiet urgency — a soft, flowing wake-up call to live fully, now. ✩
This poem was written in 2005. In 2006/07 Swim was featured on a fundraising Compilation LP for Campaign Against Arms Trading, (CAAT) engineered by Oli Widdaker @ Blue Flower Studios. In November of 2008, I was invited to be a guest speaker for Late at Tate, at the screening of my Poetry Film for Swim (below). Swim is now in 2025 Swim is an uplifting dance / house track on my debut EP available from bandcamp.
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