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No worries please. This is merely an 'uplifting' poem.

Rip Tides

Rip Tides

Dead serious this depression business rocky murky
with tides like a tsunami suggesting certain

               drop zones
                              that kill

No swimming but drowning lead weights in my heart and no
wetsuit for balance and buoyancy no compass the currents are

               dragging me 
                              out and down 

Inner pirates lure away from the shore and most of all 
from my Self little devils like giants amplifying

               what is there
                              and what is not

The lighthouse is dim and yet irritating a stroboscope racing
torched thoughts spin in endless loops and blinding flashes on

               automatic pilot in 
                              steady apathetic inertia

24th July 2018
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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July 24, 2018 at 6:30 AM
"....dragging....out and down..." memories of death
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