Shipwreck

There were dolphins on the ceiling,

their grey bodies in greenish waters,

dancing through shadows cast by artificial moonlight

 

I pretend the hairs interrupting my vision,

are endless Gothic spires, like fingers,

Pointing down at me, wet with salt,

 

Some vast darkness stirs below me,

Four chair legs hands deep in ocean,

My feet quake with cold and numbness,

 

Porpoises, childlike in their nature

Clicking in cheerful chatter,

It terrifies me,

 

They've come as hands of death,

Laughing, flitting teeth destined to tear flesh,

To strike down to bone and beyond,

 

There is a skeleton in my chair

waiting to be released in an arctic bath,

To decay into dust,

 

The currents call,

echoing winds through decrepit wood,

broken masts and sails,

 

Darkness engulfs the white cross,

on my parent's ivory rosary,

God is dead and I'm to take her place,

 

In the bottom of the ocean,

Vast nothingess,

Suffocating in the depths,

Lost in an apathetic stare,

In a redundant coil of a self-eating snake,

The question why

 

This poem is about: 
Me

Comments

TamingOfSeaWolves

Don't let go

This is a book and you can't just quit reading

You can't just quit writing

Or quit being

You exist not to just stop existing

You have power

more than you could dream really

You have power at school

And with your family

To change the course 

So change the course

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