Fair warning I wrote this as an assignment for 8th grade English class but was talked into publishing it. The poem was supposed to be about a sad tragedy. I apologize in advance.
Please have mercy.
- Jax
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"Oh mama! Oh papa! Oh where have you gone?"
The water we once sailed on now pools around my feet.
"Oh mama! Oh papa! Oh where have you gone?"
I am being pushed and shoved by people I never did meet.
"Oh mama! Oh papa! I'm starting to float!
They won't let us on the deck, they've locked the gate!
"Oh mama! Oh papa! I see you in the life boat!
Where are you going? No mama! Papa! Please wait!
Oh mama! oh papa I see something beneath the gate
I tell a grown up and he says it's the key!
Oh mama! Oh papa! They need someone with small hands to reach through the grate!
That's when they all look at me
Oh mama, oh papa everyone is pushing me under water towards our escape!
I struggle at first but then take a deep breath
Oh mama! Oh papa! I've given them the key! They've opened the gate!
I share in our short triumph before I am trampled to death.
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Yikes. Again, sorry.
- Jax
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Breathing Water
Poetry"Hello? Are you there?" I call up to the wall. Standing at the bottom it makes me feel small. The wall blocks my view but I know that you're there. With this new wall in your life it's hard to show you I care. "Will you please let me in?" I lean...
