As It Consumed Me

A motion of poems about the power and destruction of love.

Part I

seamlessly raining on me

the salt of the sea

discrete to the tongue

it will arrest me

free, do you flee

to the depths

you will find me there

filled with all that I see

the longest of locks

flow thru your fingertips,

and a tail so green and blue

it is hardly seen

a beauty is the scene

ever-breathing lungs of the sea in its being

Porcelain are the things

at my feet

rock and teeth

and wrecked pirate ships

another sweet morning in the deep

Part II

nothing seemed more beautiful

than that clear green water

luminous as I sank in

and as it filled every hole inside of me

never has something so close to death

come to make me feel so alive

that was the day I realized

all other days meant nothing.

I've seen land, but I keep going

I keep on rowing

I’m not going back, not for a moment

I have a new family of starry night skies

Part III

all I see is a spiral

when I close my eyes

all I feel is waves

my pattern, my progress

transforming

my visual, spiritual, auditory hallucinations

is my life. all I know

in a trance, my mind wanders

every place but here

Part IV

helpless. I am adrift

tied upon a sinking ship

a menace is the sea

what’s roped to me once set me free

will I refuse to move, or simply try

have I given in to what seems my only friend

nothing should make more sense

and so i went

to the depths of the sea as it carried me

never will I see this light again