Another, Possibly Horrendously Awful, Interruption

The Bathwater Has Not Been Let Out

Night, or early morning
Unsure which. All I know
is that my mouth is an empty hipflask
in the midst of a yellow desert.

Bare feet silent on old carpet
but the bathroom door creaks
like the rusty swingset
we had as children.
The light explodes on and pops
the bubblewrap that surrounds my eyes.
Black dots in my vision.
It, like all things, passes.

The bathwater has not been let out.

The ivory seabed is drowned
by the opaque lake
that should have been drained
last night.

The water is murky, muddied by
the thoughts of those who were there.
Dreaming of tomorrow and washing
the cares of today
into the water.
The lake dissolved the secrets that stain skin
and now holds them silent until
they are sucked down the drain
where they cease to have meaning
or secrecy.

The silent lake
this still ocean of yesterday’s cares
is wrong in the stark chemical light.
Bathwater does not belong
in the world
of dark morning
and echoing night.

The bath is a place
of children laughing
and splashing
and rubber ducks bobbing
on the waves like buoys.
Or else
the bath is a place
of golden candles
and solitude
and lavender drifting
on the air like music.

The white bathwater
under the chemical light
is wrong and misplaced.

I would send it away
but the noise it would make
in protest at being told
to leave
would surely perturb
those who are sleeping
and those who are trying
to dream.

I do not want
to submerge my hand in
the problems of someone else
born on a day that has passed
into darkness.

And besides, this water
which sits like milk
is still and quiet
like sheets of silk.

To bed.
And in the morning
the still silent sea
that opaque lake
is gone.

By...Me!
Yeah, me. I wrote this. And I'd like to know what y'all thought, even, and most especially, if you thought it was shit. Just, y'lnow, tell me why.
This is exactly as I wrote it, no edits, nothing. That's how I roll with poems. It just goes as it goes. If something does need changing, let me know.
I'm serious, guys, c'mon!