Water haunts

My ears

& my lips

No smell

No taste 

An adult drink

But I’ve brought 

A new bottle 

to trick my brain 

It has a straw... 

To stop it being mundane

I gulp and I swallow

Like a hamster in a cage 

With an upside-down straw

Guzzling it down with rage

Then at the end of a

Water filled day 

I collapse into bed and drown into my duvet

Closing my eyes &

Feeling super proud

Until the fish tank next to my pillow

Drips and drops

So loud

After I’d drank the recommended amount

I sigh

Get up

& piss it all out