#drowning poems on Hello Poetry

Sarah Flynn Oct 2020

someone said to me that
depression is like drowning
but never being able to die.

I used to relate to that.

now, I think that
maybe I've adapted
and grown invisible gills.

I haven't been able to swim
back up to the surface,

but now I'm not sure
if I even want to.

air feels foreign
and uncomfortable.

it's easier now
to breathe underwater.

#depression #water #breathing #alone #past #drowning #invisible #death #relate

Diana Santiago Oct 2020

Undertow

Your waters are slowly drowning me
The waves of your unrequitedness dragging me below
This ocean so indifferent and cold
My gasps for air fall deaf on your salty waters

Your currents tossing me around like a rag doll
Gurgling cries emanating from my lungs
A Godly barge frantically tossing a life saver
My attempts are no match for your choppy seas

Fight I will with all my might
To survive, to live and to thrive
Victorious, I will reign above the drenching flow
Of your dark emotionless undertow

#unrequitedlove #suffocation #drowning #ocean #survival #victory

Lukai Oct 2020

Re-Drowning

I’m stuck in a pool
And I cannot swim
I waste another breath
Every moment I spend
I want out but
Keep on drowning again

For every time I do
Try to swim
Try to catch my breath
Heading towards the “top”
I hit the bottom and
And the water sinks in
Filling my lungs
The lights going dim

It’d be much easier if I open my eyes
But what I’ll see to no surprise
Would be the top
Where I am scared to go
So I keep on drowning

#drowning #memories #sadness #cry #deep #metaphor #tears #fear #anxiety

Caitlin Faykus Oct 2020

Drowning

Surrounded by a field of flowers
She drowns
Because the ocean is her ceiling

#drowning #sad #depressing #ocean #flowers

Gea Venise Oct 2020

I Stopped Swimming

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.

#drowning #emptiness #sadness

Alice Oct 2020

on almost's

I am sitting in a pool of my own confliction
wondering if losing you
is worth gaining the love I desperately crave

I've spent so long
debating on taking the leap that
I haven't noticed the water
has reached my mouth

now I am drowning
and unable to say anything at all

we could have been extraordinary

#love #unrequited #want #friendship #hurt #drowning #emotions #sad #almost