Fish hooks picking at my skin

Wicked barbs **** at the soft pink flesh within

Pulled, harder, deeper the metal sinks

Yanked, tugged, closer to reality

Up, higher, desperate gasps of breath

Reaching, stretching, for a solution, an anchor

Faster, harder, cast out into the unknown

Colder, deeper, too numb to drown

Pulled, harder, deeper

Warmer