Tell Me A Story

Ocean Waters

Hello, wonderful readers. This is my first published-ongoing-book about random, weird, strange poems that I hope you enjoy. 

I'm new at publishing and having my work in the public so try not to criticize me too much. 

Most of my poems are black-outs from magazines or books so they don't really make much sense but they are interesting.

The other poems that aren't black-outs are from my brain. But either way black-outs or not I want them all to make you feel something.

That is why I add a song to each poem. The song might have something that connects with the poem and other times they don't. 

Please no copyrighting, stealing, plagiarizing, paraphrasing of any of these poems. All poems come from my creative brain and I do cite the magazine from my black-out poems.

Thank you, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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Swinging off a bridge isn't something you should do at night.
You're in a daze, you have no idea if this is really real, or not but you swing off anyway.

No matter how much air you fill your lungs with the ocean water will always suck you dry. Even your tears will dry to your cheecks.

The crisp chilling water makes your body freeze. Your temperature decreases to a point where you feel nothing, but then after a while you feel everything. From the tips of your toes to the top of your head. Everything will feel tingley, and not the warm fuzzy kind, like when seeing your crush; No, everything goes from icy cold to a burning fire.

I think to call it 'the pain of burning ice'. Because when you're so cold but then something you didnt know could get any colder touches your skin, it burns with ice.

Before you fell, your heart pounds and turns hard from the force. Once you are so far in the water your heart becomes soft like it's not even there.

You cant see anything, but you hear almost everything.
Are you even alive you might ask?
For now, your body says humming in a frantic heartbeat.

The waves twist your body from left and right. The upper half of your body is twisting left and your hips turning right. Your bones feel so brittle from the chill and become like glue, easy to break once cold.

The waves keep crashing on you leaving you no where to escape to breathe. Your beating heart sends messages to your brain yelling at it to get some air.

Your anxiety steps in and all of a sudden you don't want to be here anymore you want to be in your pjs sleeping in your comfy warm bed, instead of this endless dark cold pit. You wish you could turn back and never have thought of this. Your air supply becomes vary shallow. So small you try to take a gulp of air but all you suck in is water.

Your eyes are burning. You want to cry and scream and just take a breath of fresh air but you know you won't get to it in time. You struggle to the surface of the water. You can see the sun casting over the waves dawn is upon you.

All of a sudden you have this power to get to the sun beams glistening off the water. You push yourself to swim to the surface kicking your legs and trying to calm your heart.

But all of a sudden all of the work your putting into swimming to the surface seems pointless because you feel a tug on your feet. And you try not to get too overwhelmed with your heart racing and your stomach pounding and your lungs breaking.

Even though you cant really see it you remember what's dragging you down. You remember how it looked before you trapped it onto your ankle.

You remember the realization of the 10 pound weight you trapped yourself to was the only thing keeping you from life and death.

Is there even time left for you and try to take it off?
I don't know how about you at least try.

You reach down to your legs but the pressure in your head makes you dizzy. And you slowly drift down deeper, and deeper, and deeper into the ocean.
You see white, red, blue, turquoise, and even black dots.

But now you seem tired from all of that work you put your body through.

How about you just rest for a bit. I know it might not be the most comfortable position and your ears might be clogged with water, and your lungs might be burning, and your head might be draining, but try and find a way to get comfortable and let your mind go blank.

Think of nothing. Relax, nothing can hurt you now.

Sink deeper and deeper into the stomach of the ocean and let it take you away.
To peace.

This is the part where you can say your last goodbyes. This is the place for no more regrets or fears. Let it all go. Close your eyes and take your last breath. Because this is what it feels like when you swing off a bridge into the ocean at night.

But wait...why did you wake up.
You weren't suppose to. This wasn't suppose to happen. You were suppose to stay asleep.

This wasn't a dream at all...it was a nightmare...my nightmare

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Song by Alec Benjamin 'Water Fountain'