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I’m drowning in the ocean blue

January 20, 2021
By Anonymous

Where am I

I wonder

My breath coming in bubbles

that rise up

Where am I


It is not water,

I recall,

because you would drown


A shiver in the still calm

breaks through my lungs

But I need not to breathe,

I think,

I need not to


where did the world go?

I wonder

and why is my heart

brittle


like stone?


I cough

but the bubbles are gone

and something cold

and hard

slips out of my mouth

It hits the bottom of something


thump-thump.


Wings lift my lungs

but water fills them


And I think,


or it is,

it’s water


because I think I just 

might be


drowning

© Anonymous

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