Shipwreck

I am contaminated,
As is the sea,
My mind is a ship,
Sunken to the deepest parts 
Of my thoughts,
It was a wreckage
That no one has discovered.

Plunging into an ocean of grief,
My lungs swallow the water.
Trying to breathe it in,
I can taste the plastic,
Not the salt.
My thoughts are the pollution
No one tries to clean

I am lost.
I am a shipwreck.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Gentry Avatar
April 18, 2018 at 1:21 AM
Congratulations on your win with this timely and foreboding poem.
Ur Avatar
April 24, 2018 at 2:05 AM
Thank you, I greatly value the support, I am pleased that you liked it. :))
Gauthier Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 2:09 PM
Congrats on your podium finish, Cynthia. Superbly done.
Ur Avatar
April 24, 2018 at 2:00 AM
Thank you for your kind words, I am glad you liked it :)
Neumann Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 8:27 AM
Congratulations on your win in my contest. It is a wonderfully sad image that you paint. Can I send you a life buoy?
Ur Avatar
April 24, 2018 at 1:57 AM
Thank you so much!! A life buoy would actually be much appreciated haha :D
Ajmal Avatar
April 7, 2018 at 1:21 PM
A nice written poem with a really nice message,you see we should learn how to be happy while been alone because no one is going to stay with us forever, and we have to go alone in our graves, that s the reality of this world, this life is a test and God test us, sometime by giving us happiness sometime by sadness but we have to remain loyal and hopeful coz our time shall also come, there s no light without dark, so every sad moment shall end and our time also come, just wait for it
Ur Avatar
April 24, 2018 at 1:54 AM
I appreciate your words of encouragement and am thankful you like the poem. Yes, you are right, there will always be dark moments in life but light will eventually come :)
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