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Gea Venise Oct 2020
It's not that I don’t know how to swim
It’s just that I'm okay with drowning.

I'm okay with sinking
Staring up at the light
That I'll never be able to reach

Because a part of me
Doesn’t even want to try.
Gea Venise Oct 2020
Fireflies in a bottle
Beautiful, aren’t they?

Bottled to be appreciated
Trapped to be admired

Left suffocating
For our own convenience.
Gea Venise Oct 2020
I did ask for it.
I wanted him to touch me.
I did ask
For the happiness
It might possibly bring.

But he touched me too hard.
It made me bleed.
Gea Venise Oct 2020
Sometimes
I tell myself to go back.

Back when everything was pitch black
In an unreachable depth
Where it is cold and lonely
Yet the safest place I know
Away from everyone else.

Sometimes
I tell myself to go back

To being an ocean
Where the underlying danger
Only comes from myself.

Sometimes
I tell myself to go back
But then I don't do it.

Maybe because I am fully aware
That the ocean
No matter how mysterious it is
No matter how beautiful it is
No matter how magical it is
It is not the safest place to be.

But then again
Like the ocean
I only have myself.

Where else would I go?

— The End —