Poetry written by a Borderline

The Kraken

Gasping, drowning,

I think I must be fighting for my life.

Why have you forsaken me?

Why have you left me to die on this sinking ship?

The freezing water bites my skin,

I feel as if I am being burned alive.

I can't feel my fingertips,

I can't feel my heart.

I have lost everyone and everything.

Exhaustion wraps around me-

false euphoria.

The surface grows further and further away,

but I have lost all strength, all hope.

Defeat-

The Kraken wraps its crude tentacle

around my corpse.

Another shipwreck-

another victim of the Kraken.