broken bones

» drowning

i have heard

that right before a person drowns,

there is a moment of total and utter peace;

there is no pain and no panic,

the kind of gut-wrenching calm that blankets a town

after it has been ripped through by a tornado

i wonder if we are all drowning,

constantly flailing and splashing and gasping for breath,

thrashing around in the relentless water

that tries to swallow us whole;

and once we surrender our fight,

we will be enveloped in silence