Blue

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I patiently waited
for the day I'd drown

Drown in my sorrows

Drown in the overwhelming
urge that

drowning was all I had left

To drown peacefully
as the sun bid
farewell

I'd sink lower and lower
until my body

was no longer a body
of a human
but a body of
water

like the ocean I
would no longer have a
beginning

or end.

I would just be.

The murmurs of
fish would happily
greet me

my eyes would no
longer be brown

but a deep blue
reflecting the
parts of my soul

that no longer needed
oxygen to stay

afloat

When they come looking

for me

whoever they find
won't be me.

I'll be watching with
one last breath
seeing that the person
with closed

brown eyes

Is someone from a
distant
memory

My skin would not
be pale and blue
but burning with

Life

No one
would look for me

here

Not Anymore

my tired arms
would submerge

me once again
but this time

I wouldn't drown

I'd swim.

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