Monday Poetry Train - The Drowning

Brand spanking new - still needs edits but throwing it out there anyway.

The drowning

Face pressed beneath the water

Indulging in the sweet sips of your deceit

She dreamed in happy ever after fragments,

Of Ophelia softly singing

And she was kept…

quite willing to believe in anything.

The drip, drip of half-truths

Wrapped in heartfelt sincerity

Her self esteem eroded,

As the ripples of your duplicity

shudder onward, outward…

Dragging her down and down and down.

Heart beat flutters, much too fast

Cracking beneath the pressure

Of pretending her smile hasn’t fallen

Off the edge of the world,

While everything, oh everything is alright…

Trapped in the leaky vessel of her life.

Face pressed beneath the water

Tears dissolving in its watery embrace

Her choice remains steadfast and simple,

Lift herself up and out

or drink deeply of the sorrow…

That will fill her until she drowns.

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