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Drowning

Text: Drowning

from Kerry Ashwin, 11.10.09

Drowning


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Like a friend she embraced me


Cradling me, coaxing me on.


Her memories enveloped me.


Triumphs and sorrows,


Victories and vanquished,


Sailors and sirens.


 


I could struggle.


I could fight.


But she plays a lullaby


and I want to succumb.


 


Her body surrounds me.


 I want to return to her womb.


 Then,


I must breathe


and she becomes my enemy,


a lover spurned,


a mother cast aside,


 as I hold onto life


and live.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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