Poems

Ocean Floor

They tied cinder bricks to her feet,
Pushed along the plank and told her to leap.

She jumps with eyes wide open she watches as she sinks.

Trying to free her hands from their ties, she can't break free as hard as she tries.

Bubbles go up as she goes down.
On water, she begins to choke as she drowns.

Along the ocean floor, she struggles no more.

Eventually her eyes open.

Weightless she glides through night skies.

No longer alone, she found a home.

With a new friend, their journey may never end.

No longer on earth, she forgot the hurt.

On an island of the lost, she found happiness without a cost.

In the woods, they played all day.
No worries to take their peace away.

And when it got chilly they sat around their campfire being silly.
In a place with so much time, she began to feel happiness was a crime.

Missing the pain.
From the others, she couldn't refrain.

One suggested she go back, she had demons to tame.

When the moment comes to go, there's one thing they all know.

You can never return, you chose the hell in which you burn.

With tears in her eyes she waves good bye, and back to earth she flies.

Many years had passed, one thing she learned was nothing ever lasts.

With a world she knew no more, she returned to the ocean floor.

Where she slept, until one day was woken by cries the world wept.

Above the waves she found, everything in ruins and scattered along the ground.

Within the blink of an eye, she learned the dead can die.

She no longer existed because the force they played with was twisted.