Treading Waters

Swimming in a sea of pain Doing laps inside a brain Corrupted by a loneliness A soul has ever-long repressed Every time I push through a wave I consider that which I gave To a life of yesterday With ghosts that linger as they prey Upon the essence of my soul Making it impossible to be whole Here I float, in this abyss Feeling the cold of the water’s caress Alone and tossed upon this sea A ed up broken entity