Love the symbolic philosophical projection portrayed in this write...your reference to water which is usually for purification but in this case went toward stagnation...nicely done
I can't say anything before I acknowledge the background, lol, call me strange but it seems eerie to me that it connects so well with the poem, looks like two eyes peering back at me with your words stained in themm now on to the poem, it reminds me of a person reflecting
On something they wish they could pull themselves out of but there's no stable ground to stand on when its all said n done so they are just there, stuck. Peering at freedom