POS 2: Eros, The Elusive Swimmer
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Last published Thu, Feb 15, 2024
The assaulting scent of the chlorine. The pristine cool waters. The trailing water droplets on his skin. The calm and silent surface underneath the water. The crowd's defeaning cheers and shouts. All was a blurry film of glory. Those yesterdays had long gone.
Eros did anything to stay long in the water. He thought he did. But it was never enough. After all the issues. The doubts. The grueling truth that slapped him and drowned him. He never made it to the surface again. He thought he didn't.
And now, he hated the water as he sees it everyday. It reminds him how free he was before, how it became everything so bearable. How it feels to be underneath the water yet still be able to breathe. Odd. Now, how could he be able to accept the truth? The cruel truth. That it was never like before.
How does it takes to breathe underwater? And drowning in tranquility at the same time.
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