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March- 22- 2025
Swimming in Grief Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Sara Jama
~ Placed Fifth~
Swimming in Grief
The grief I carry is so heavy
None can sense the weight I feel in my chest.
It is crushing me, I feel it in every breath I take,
And in each step, I totteringly make.
From my heart, all sweet songs are stolen
In my ears, fall a dull, hollow resonance
Where ever I look, I see only an obsidian hue.
My mind has become a wild labyrinth,
Where phantoms dance a macabre dance.
When I look at the sky, I see,
A pallid moon with a paling gleam.
My mind has become a sepulcher,
Where broken dreams are buried.
My spectral frame can no more, endure the aches
That surround me and draw me in
Like a black hole so dense.
I feel I am pulled deeper in and can’t free myself.
Now sleep eludes me and it is far from my grasp
All I feel is a burning ache, an incinerating pain!
There was a time when my laughter
Reverberated within the walls of my house
I don’t know when anguish took me unaware
Like a slithering python, coiling and unwinding,
Hungry and angry, tightening its deadly hold on me,
Cracking my brittle bones, one by one.
When agony like an ever- swelling current sweeps over me
I desperately stretch my limbs to swim to a safer shore.
Like a dazed baby, kicking and squirming
In a desperate bid to save himself from drowning,
I try in vain to get out from sorrow’s depths.
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