Sea Spray
I wrote this to submit to a Pain Poetry contest but I didn't end up doing that because why do things that intimidate you when you can just indulge in maladaptive daydreaming, right?
Anyway, if I want to make myself publish things more, I need to have an exam coming up, as usual.
Yawning wide/ The moment
After the screaming stops
The universe itself
Seemingly lingers suspended
In animation/ Baited
By breath I dive back in
For this time / As the cold hits
Me in the face, the stinging
Pressure of the deep blue sea
In submerged eyeballs
The tears are all a-drowning
The silence
Rushing back out/ I swim
Again into the screaming/ See.
Stop. Knees buckling under
Memory's onslaught/ Reliving
That part where your life flashes
Past time/ And again/ Mine eyes numb
And blinded by the effort
Of trying to keep seeing/ To keep
Doing what they were built
to do/ The silence
Takes me by surprise as
The word screaming hangs silent
In the deep/ Replacing
The roaring hellfire that spreads
Cross acres of seabed/ What life
Was once here is long gone
A-roasted and boiled and gulped
Down in spices/ Their souls
To the Sea Beyond the sea/ To paradise
Flooded in coconut cream and honey
Gap. My memory opens wide
its maw/ Ancient leviathan gorged
And sated by monsters ev'n older
By things inside of me I cannot
kill/ I gasp awake from dreams
Of drowning/ My bed made
In the coffin of a pearl so large
It dwarf'd the tallest of buildings I see
In all my waking dreams
With the dead from deadships
For dinner company and ghosts
From my past crowding railings of rust
Another breath/ The oceans fall
Away and I/ Alone
As nightmares crumble to fact
It's time/ I've lost a few weeks this time
It's time to wrap my selves together/ Sweep
All the dust and smother/ Fires
Into Oil lamps burning forever / The sea
Won't stay at bay for long / But now
Isn't the time to think of hearts
Bleeding over now so stop/ The silence
Yawning wide and blessed/ Silence
Come to tuck me in/ Now rest
They won't be back for a few
Just a few weeks in and for which I'll live
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