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Poems
Feb 2020
Into the Deep
Free will has brought us here,
brought
me
here,
all the result of breathing.
A consequence from arrogance.
A consequence from alcohol (But not me).
A consequence of neglect.
A consequence of the unknown
explosion at any given moment
from my mother when we
were young.
My developed response
a fight or flight my whole life,
the pathway so deep
a bottom doesn't exist.
Like a deep sea diver
the lower I go
the darker it becomes.
Claustrophobia and panicΒ Β
are almost certain.
Breathing
becomes more difficult
and returning to the surface
takes slow and steady patience.
I've only gone so deep.
How much further I might go I do not know.
I'm terrified to think what might be down there.
The thought of meeting the unknown face to face is
a fight I fight everyday.
They tell me that fighting gives it strength,
it would be better to befriend it.
I try but
its hard to make friends
in the dark.
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