Bath

Bath

          A boat-shaped vessel with room for one ;

when you clamber into a bath ,

you are

 captain,crew, passenger

          rolled into one —

yet baths

          require no special skills

          nor do they stand on ceremony ;

          in this they are like

          some beaches — dress is entirely optional ;

entering a bath

          you enter a topsy-turvy  world

          where water fills the craft not surrounds it —

though baths will never sink ;

head back , you settle down but are going nowhere—

          baths have no destinations

          nor sails and are permanently in

          dry dock —

yet people

          have been known to drift off

          in baths emerging

          rosy skinned and luminous as if

          fresh from a voyage .

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