Poseidons Captive
When you love someone, you just dive in, recklessly abandoning yourself to them. Love isn’t safe, it’s not always pretty, and it can be devastating at times. But that is what makes it pure; real, it’s what makes it risky, incomparable and unmatchable to any other emotional experienced between two people.
Though still, some see just the pretty; the surface and they know no darkness - the deep end; where the ugly, bad and awful settles.
You and I know these waters.
We have felt the pull of the undercurrent that tries to catch our feet and drag us under.
Sometimes to surrender seems easier than to protest against the grain.
The fight and the struggle against the tide makes for seeing the beauty amidst the most tempestual of moments.
My storm has been relentless, and for the most part you were just a bystander, until you became swallowed by the demons that have me chained to a sinking anchor.
I want you not to have to watch me sink.
But it seems you hold out to me like a crossguard
My hand seems to have been within your clutch for an eternity.
As you pull, I submerge but then I continue to descend because I am tangled in chains that are unyielding.
Here is my weight and its chains; see the ugly like you did, now that you face the shackle. Hopefully the pretty will float up, now that I have gone face down;
I won’t drown on your watch.
Let the untangling begin.
Copyright © Madeleine Loggia | Year Posted 2017
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