Love Is Water

Love is water
You can't destroy it or create it
You can try to freeze it out
You can try to sublimate it
It always finds its way
Through every crack and every wall
Deny it all you want
Like a cascade it will fall
And then you're swept along
You're caught up in the tide
Till all your protestations
Have all been washed aside

Love is water
You cannot live without it
It might be so polluted
You can't do a thing about it 
It might have turned to ice
Abrading frostbit skin
It might have burned too hot
And blown off in the wind
But always it's been there
To carve a wand'ring path
Across your personal landscape
With stormy aftermath

Why do I try to stop it?
Why do I build a dam?
Why do I close the faucet
Denying everything I am?

Love is water
It drowns you when the floods arise
It makes a garden of all your life
Then it gushes from your eyes
When all you wanted was just a sip
Some joker turned on the hose
When all you wanted was desert sands
Then suddenly grew a rose
It can't be stopped, slowed or overcome
No matter how you pretend
It washes over you, makes you clean
Won't leave you alone till the end

How can I escape the riptide?
How can I stay on dry land?
How can I ride the thunderstorm
In my castles all made of sand?

Love is water
It's what we all have inside
Once in a while we take the plunge
And then we wash ashore on the tide