Drowning
drowning...
Screaming silently for that one breath
of life...
that whirling maelstrom of beaten-down loss upon wrap-around defeat
of life...
that mercilessly shovels heaps of leaden rubble as you try to get back on your feet
drowning...
mute and dumbly flailing in the raging torrent
of being...
but a mere speck of dirt on the tapestry of a world, that at times, is quite abhorrent
drowning...
quietly wishing to surrender to the nothingness that seductively beckons, as you gasp
while...
hoping against all hope that a lifeline would appear suddenly within your grasp
drowning...
yet caught in the ghastly waters of unchartered isolation
feeling...
a trickle of hope amidst the gushing liquid of sheer desolation
drowning...
whilst holding on to slivers of sanity when blistering madness calls out to you
as...
faltering weaknesses snap and gnaw at your state of being, out of the pristine clear blue
drowning...
i have felt the pull of life's devious current as it has stripped me of my self and left me naked and bare
and still...
i fight with every suffocating breath left within
to surface and to cling onto
another gulp of life's coarse and putrid air...
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