Clinging to a life preserver, you're barely afloat from everything trying to drown you, gasping for air while the waves berate you.
Swimming to safety is a regular to you, coming and going, floating gracelessly about your mind.
the minute supply of air in your lungs is too familiar by now.
You're arms ache from grasping the ring so tight for so long, not daring to let go.
The strain in your muscles is almost comfortable by now.
It feels as if you've forgotten how to swim, the only way to get home and you've forgotten.
The pain feels normal, you're accustomed to it's harshness, more scared of what's in the open waters than the well known pain of your ring.
You sink the slightest bit deeper as the next wave chokes you.
What you don't realize is:
you can drown either way.
AN: Written by me
