Floating Free

There’s this feeling

Burning

It heats me up

And burns me out

 

Smoke is building

I struggle to get out

My eyes water

And my skin bleeds

Don’t you know it’s you I need?

 

Holding fast

To this moving ship

One false move and I’ll slip

Into the sea

Look at me floating

Soft

Before

Sinking deeply

 

As I reach bottom

And look up at the shimmering light

Its that feeling

That pushes me upright

 

Before my lungs give out

I breach the surface

White rains down upon me

And I swear I see halos

 

When I awake

Its in a small hospital bed

The chair beside it smells of you

 

I reach for the flowers and balloons

To find your card not there

You don’t seem to care

 

The next week

I stand

On the edge

 

Waves crashing beneath me

On the sharp rocks

I beg you to come running up behind

So I don’t have to paint the Cliffside

But you never came

So I sprouted wings

And flew

Into the deep eternal blue

My lungs burst

And I’m wrapped in sweet darkness

 

I see a bright red apple

I reach out to take a bite

But something is holding me back

It’s a snake

 

It pulls me back into the arms

Of an angel

 

That looks like you.

 

Reviews

[R E Tree]

I feel a sense of longing in this poem and desperation for this woman. I actually find it sweet and romantic the way you think of her at first. Then you try to move on from her knowing that she doesn't care but you get pulled back. It shows its hard to get over the love what you had for her. The last stanza makes me feel you can't escape from her. I think it's amazing of how you have thought this through. You have some talent keep writing