The Smell Like Water

I smell you all over me.
Everywhere I go,
Someone in here smells like you.
And suddenly,
I'm overwhelmed.
Drowned in an ocean of memories,
Like a tidal wave consuming me,
Like an undertow,
pulling me down.
And the memories surround me.
The smell like the water
fills my nose and my mouth
and my lungs and my chest
and I'm pulled towards the feelings I thought had been laid to rest.
The smell, like the water of the shower
as steam pervades my brain and cages me in,
reminding me of you.
And I can't escape from it.
The smell like water:
like an ocean with no shore,
I can't get out of it.
I drown in memories of you and me,
pulled down by the undertow of the flow
of the smell of you, like water, over me.