Death by Drowning

Death by Drowning

by Marshal Gebbie

Surging through the life way 
Feel the flooding all around, 
Wade neck deep in turmoil 
Inundated, cold and drowned. 

A waterfall of trouble 
Cascading through your mind, 
Slashing through the visual 
And rendering you blind. 

Awash with soaking platitudes 
Immersed in ideas fraught, 
With rationale that's compromised 
By sudden thoughts of nought. 


Sloughing off precipitants 
Skimming through the mire, 
Rearrange the tangled sequence 
To leave potential to aspire. 


Dispense with poor priorities 
Expunge them with a shout, 
Simplify the landscape 
And flush that mind set out. 

Is tomorrow looking lucid, 
Have the torrents disappeared? 
Is your temperament improving, 
Have you lost that leaden fear? 

Have the serpents all submerged 
Beneath the blackness of abyss? 
Has hope's glimmer re-ignited 
To make a drowning death remiss? 

Marshalg 
Mangere Bridge 
1st December 2008