Chewed up and spat out.
I let it swallow me whole.
The tide as it took my body and drenched me in its current.
Pulling me under until my hair is covered in seaweed
And my flesh wrinkled.
Saltwater scrubbed my skin clean.
Hard enough to strip me of the natural sodium keeping me soft.
Twisting me around, turning me side from side.
The waves dragged me downwards
Until the deep end became my only end.
Once, it spat me back out on the shore
I found eyes waiting on me.
Looking to run on this beach with you.
When I’m returning from a trip in pieces without knowing how to walk.
Its odd,
I crave the water again but, not in the way it was.
In the way I wish it could have been
To swim without the fear of drowning.
- Chewed up and spat out.
About this poem
Drowning within yourself can be just as deadly as water that fights to pull you down with it. Either way, your going under. Now, we can only wish to move freely without the curse of having unlimited freedoms To be seen but not draw attention To swim without the chance of hitting rock bottom after each stride. The only real winner is the person that comes out on the other side.
Submitted by Sydwalt3 on December 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
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