Favourite Salad Dodger

Life’s no fun through clear waters
so my heart races to you a batter
bold, in italics, underlined letters
I arrive with wallops you need here

I revisit how as once in life’s barter
your emotions seeming off kilter
bursting at the seams in its lair
I arrived but had a mere rattler
depths attached, also as a tinker
I arrive now an adventure partner.