The Dive

Under the deep blue I watch the light emerge and break away spinning with bubbles galloping ahead as if to say, "It could be too late" You are down here and now the thoughts tear through the opening of my soul and I see them, my children and I pray to escape the utter silence of the water and memories of my mind The top is so far away I'm crawling up my limbs spread through the cold water like an overturned crab grasping for steadiness, straining for existence Take me above to my life darkness sees me and surrounds, swallows the air inside me and waits I begin to feel the quiet again The flat sound, still, unyielding and breaking My eyes pierce through the water and cut me I see my children waiting for me safely at home while I drown in their sea