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By ascribing to water these animalistic - nigh demonic - qualities, you have created a strong sense of paranoia and captivating suspicion toward the subject; at times, your take on the parallels between the literal, physical characteristics of water (warm, cold, crystalline, murky) and the metaphorical extensions are refreshingly unexpected (in lines 3-4 and 12-13), but at other times (6-7, especially), the connection is far weaker in originality. Overall, the imagery is well framed within the poem's stanza.

I feel intrigued. The mental image in my mind is of a single pool of water that, by mysterious means, has become sentient and is able to become warm, cold, clear, dark at an instant, depending on its whim or fancy. It is exciting, yet frightening.

Perhaps, set up more of a distinction between water being crystalline/deceitful and being murky/liar. The two are almost interchangeable, and this interchangeability melds the two ideas together into something unmemorable. Having this at the end of the poem makes it all the worse, as it taints the good that came before.