Drowning

drowning... Screaming silently for that one breath of life... that whirling maelstrom of beaten-down loss upon wrap-around defeat of life... that mercilessly shovels heaps of leaden rubble as you try to get back on your feet drowning... mute and dumbly flailing in the raging torrent of being... but a mere speck of dirt on the tapestry of a world, that at times, is quite abhorrent drowning... quietly wishing to surrender to the nothingness that seductively beckons, as you gasp while... hoping against all hope that a lifeline would appear suddenly within your grasp drowning... yet caught in the ghastly waters of unchartered isolation feeling... a trickle of hope amidst the gushing liquid of sheer desolation drowning... whilst holding on to slivers of sanity when blistering madness calls out to you as... faltering weaknesses snap and gnaw at your state of being, out of the pristine clear blue drowning... i have felt the pull of life's devious current as it has stripped me of my self and left me naked and bare and still... i fight with every suffocating breath left within to surface and to cling onto another gulp of life's coarse and putrid air...