I Taste so Bitter

I taste so bitter.

Salty

cold

vast

alone

blue green

like the sea.

 

 

The occasional

ripples of excitement when

one comes to play with

my emotions.

The giant wave

The thief that sweeps

My possessions to the shore.

 

The shore

The pig who

Hoards it greedily.

 

 

My love like shells

Beautiful but fragile to the touch.

My treasures so grand

Become polluted as ‘trash’

Is thrown at me

Clouding my mind and

My better judgement.

My treasure starts to die

Just like the seas.

 

 

What is this?

This cold dead feeling

Like someone is talking

Behind my back.

The words they say

Send shivers up my spine.

 

 

Should I be jealous?

Those who polluted my mind

And polluted me.

Should I be jealous

Of those who were not

Forced to corruption?

 

 

My mind’s all fuzzy.

I’m staggering and

Trying so hard to breathe.

My voice becoming shallow

And squeaky like

A turtle who has been

Caught with plastic.

 

 

I wheeze and I feel faint.

I must continue on!

I watch the others become

Blind by the trash

Covering their eyes.

 

I wipe away their tears

And in doing so

I wipe away their fears.

 

The winds of destruction

Roar and howl in triumph.

I realize I’ve become

More than just polluted.

 

 

My family I held so dear

Has become dead after so

Oh so many years.

The bones old and weary

Like coral in the sea.

 

The winds of destruction

And the Tornado of deceit

Crushed the coral just because

The coral is one with the sea.

 

 

I climb the rocks

Of my defeat and

My fate for I must.

The sea tries desperately

To push out

the unwanted visitors.

 

The rocks like poison

Like cancer cells that

Multiply as you defeat them.

 

The cliff above is where

I meet my defeat.

 

"Take me sea!

Let the pain we share

Melt away as we

Become one together!"

This is the fate of me.

I am like the sea.

 

 

I taste so bitter.

Salty

cold

vast

alone and

blue green.

 

 

The sour odor

That was once

A clean aura,

Has become tainted

Nevermore to be pure.

 

 

I take off the

Clothes of society.

The waves taunt me.

I will not back out now!

My glasses that blinded me…

I take them off too.

 

The coral

wrapped around my neck.

I was a murderer too.

I wear the bones of the sea.

 

 

The sea gulls are

The only goodness left in the sea.

They beg me to jump!

They tell me it’s ok!

I smile and nod to them.

 

 

I hold my reason in my hand.

When the society’s clothes

Are guaranteed to be found

With Sea’s messenger

Grasping my reason with

It’s sweet scented tongue.

 

 

The gull sits and watches.

It’s god-like eyes bore

Into my very essence.

It says to be one with

The sea.

 

I am the sea.

 

My reason gives

Me wings to fly

Off the cliff

of the world.

 

I sing the seas

Sweet melody

As I fall

Destroying misery.

 

 

My memories gone

Of my past never

To haunt the sea again.

No more roaring waves

Or broken coral.

I saved the sea

And it saved me.

I became

one with the sea.

 

 

I taste so bitter.

Salty

cold

vast

alone

blue green

like the sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

Ignore the breaks in the poem. It's not supposed to flow. If it confuses you, the person is describing herself as the sea. She cant take it anymore and "becomes one with the sea." She thinks everything about her has been corrupted by darkness even her clothing. She writes a note telling her reason for jumping off a cliff naked. A sea gull is given her note. The gull sits on the clothes with the note waiting for some curious passer-by. She feels like she's getting rid off all the pain in the world. She jumps off the cliff and falls into the sea. She gets amnesia and the only thing she can remember is 'I am the Sea'. She really did become 'one with the sea'.

Reviews

[strange_gurl]

THATS A VERY BEAUTIFUL POEM,I LOVE THIS PART ''I sing the seas

Sweet melody

As I fall

Destroying misery.''