A/n: An undertow is another word for a rip current. It softly tugs people towards the center of the ocean when they go too deep and the farther out you go into the water, the stronger the undertow is. It's how most people get lost in the never ending waves. Hope this helps you understand the poem better.
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I'm getting caught in the undertow
Gently being tugged by sand from land
Away from sand with the sand
Away from hands, with my hands
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Swim till you're caught in the undertow
Drift till the sea's lower than your all time low
And when it's time, realize you're too far
Feel fear if you wish or just accept your scars
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Breath the ocean water like a breath of flowers
Cause you're Poseidon, accept your power
You'll never know unless you try
And oh-fucking-well if you don't wanna die
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The feeling of your toes being lead by the sand
Gently accepting, grabbing the sand's abundant hands
Further and further from your home called land
Finally giving in to openly understand
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Closer to infinity forever woven
Following the path everyone should've chosen
Looking back at the shore
Looking back at the war
Looking back, wanting your decision to be forevermore
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Never wanting to leave the water
Don't wanna fight, wanna follow the waves
Fully aware of it's potential slaughter
Making the blue more beautiful as it leads you to the caves
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But your people tell you 'fight, go the other way'
'You gotta go back and stay on land another day'
You gotta ask for the ship to save
You who wants to be left in the caves
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So you fight and come back to the dry dirt
Walk up to the beach
Hear boys whistling, all they do is flirt
Now it's time to grab the earth's bleach
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Dreaming at night bout the cool undertow
Dreaming about the wet sand's gentle nudges
Bringing you to realize and peacefully sew
An ocean of human's unreasonable grudges
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Grudges in layers, folded like wool
Against the loving sea
I don't know why they don't accept the pull
But I guess the only acceptor is me
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I'll say it again, the pull of the undertow is magic
I don't know why it's seen as something so tragic
You just gotta effortlessly follow it's lead
If you don't fight it, it'll let you be
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Follow the pull of the underwater grains
Pulling you to the heart of the water from rain
My hearts forever with the ocean, call me insane
So I'll follow the undertow as it calls my name
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But they 'saved me'
They thought I'd die
They didn't believe I could even try
To tame the waves, they'd thought I'd lied
And now it's time to say goodbye
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I have to say goodbye to the undertow
I have to say bye to the caves
I have to give up feeling sand in my toes
I have to say bye to the waves
