You struggled beneath the surface of unquiet moments
and I strove too,
shared your gasping breaths
of impossible release,
flowed with time
and tide
till saved,
at last,
in the drowning.
Tag: drowning
Carry Me
carry me under water, beneath eternal blue,
slip easily, sleek agility.
carry me on water, one penny for Charon,
transport tranquility.
carry me in water, bejewelled surface break,
dive and rise, erupt euphoric serenity.
carry me like water, absorb, replace
blood’s coursing, transfuse divinity.
carry me, drowned in your water, relive the cycle,
unite and fall, suspended totality.
carry me, compulsion, enthral my soul,
lush liquid inevitability.
Ophelia
She drowned that day for want of love and truth
And suffered blackest depths in silken waves;
Wrapped by grieving cold, unjust of lovers,
Embraced deepest liquidity of graves.
Other fault of miscommunication,
Disbelief, flawed lover, by no means brave –
To dwell on words of patent jealousy;
No trust nor second chance this love he gave.
Suspended, in timeless vault of darkness,
Eyes closed forever, nothing more to save;
Surrendered heart and soul into river
And damned by love’s mistrust became its slave.
‘Sweetheart, you not once believed my loving
If so easily heart has misbehaved.
Cherish only what was held between us,
A love, time was, assumed we two had craved.’
Gasping
Ditto on the same song thing. Always an alternative.
Flailing madly with each wave,
Gasping now for breath,
Ascension to the heavens,
Tossed and so bereft
Of hope and passing saviour,
Strong arm to grasp to shore,
Drowned in ocean’s violence,
Sunk for evermore.
Oceans of Only You
A romantic take on the ocean. Pictures courtesy of Mark at http://healingyourheartfromwithin.wordpress.com/gallery2/
Drowned in you
I breathe the air
Drawn from submersion.
Azure blue and liquid gold
Intoxicate.
Love, in this immersion.
Undulating balm,
So healing,
Saturates all reason.
Atomic togetherness
Proves
Attraction and cohesion.
Drifting in a pool of you,
Eyes closed
Despite the fear,
Emptiness of everything
But
Enveloped by you near.
Deepest depths drown out
All noise,
Drenched in your mere name.
Warming touch,
Such sweet caress,
Lights eternal flame.
Only you can quench the fire,
Flood
My heart, my soul.
Only you,
Like ocean blue,
May make this woman whole.
Air
She gasped for breath that day
And I,
I was useless,
Almost.
Asthma, in a panic
And I panicked too.
What to do?
What to do!
Hands flailing, breath wheezing,
Drowning for want of air.
Eyes wide,
Terrified.
I was there,
With a phone, that’s all.
One call.
Take charge,
Take control,
Take inhaler
And point
And press
And pray
And it worked.
Watching
Someone gasp for air,
My mum,
Helpless to help
But still,
It went well
With advice,
Calmly given
And actions taken,
Eventually.
Listening
To reports
Of chemical
Warfare,
I cry.
I die a little,
Remembering
That day.
How dare they?
How dare they!
Air,
First on the hierarchy of need.
Not greed, but necessity.
Shoot me,
Stab me,
Bomb me,
Kill me quickly.
Do not take
My air.
Seconds of drowning,
A lifetime of suffering.
Terror in eyes
Not easily forgotten.
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