This is where it all
comes down
to the point of
you and the world
beginning fresh
like a tidal wave
rushing
I long to exist.
Spinning, circling, diving
coming up for air
I'm barely breathing
sputtering for one
single moment
to pass me through.
I know, I know, I know
that I need to keep
pushing harder still
stay above the pressing waves
before I am lost.
But me, I am a fool
I lay here on my back
resist the truth
letting it all around me
splash and suck me down.
Take it out
take it out, take it out
all you dedicated soldiers
we keep on getting so much older
and we can't battle time.
Floating now
just absorbing
gentle water slowly lapping
at my ankles
and for one blissful second
I am free.