Don't drown, I said.
But when the water got colder it thickened with blood,
then my hands froze and my feet stuck in mud-
I looked back on that girl who said simply, "don't drown"
and stole her air as I sunk straight down.
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Edited: 11/15/2024
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Ode to Life
PoesíaIt's chaos to figure out how to live. To love yourself, to love others, to create, to destroy. It's just life. But maybe... just life isn't a bad thing? You can't have good without the ugly. This has all my poems combined, this'll be my only poetry...
