Poetic scripts followed By unfulfilling outcomes Saved from drowning with a deep breath A glass of ice water Swallowed all at once Intensity spoke calmly Calamity over and over We're laughing but we're not breathing We're crying yet feeling nothing but The dead air of an otherwise Non-existent summer And the cool breeze off an ocean Spitting pleas of comfort Right back in our face If this is love then we have learnt nothing If this is love then where is life meant to lead us Except in circles