Clarity and Sediment

Occluded skies
Reflected in a secluded cove
Cold, still water
With the clarity of glass

Now I
In this diffuse, scattered light
See the depths in crisp detail

A bed of granite
Obscured by sand and silt

In this, I see myself

The bedrock of me
Beneath a sediment of memory

And these beneath the terrible weight
Of experiences so fully repressed
As to be rendered transparent

So I stir up the bottom
Cloud the water
See what patterns emerge
To reveal the dark matter that is the forgotten me