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only until the boat is sinking

January 20, 2022
By Anonymous

A: As I watched my big boat finish sinking 

B: I think to myself, “How am I supposed to get out?”

B: But the thoughts in my head felt like a drought,

A: I could not stop myself from drinking.

A: With sad music in the background crying, 

B: Not able to get off the sinking boat,

B: I am wrapped in its’ suffocating coat,

A: The waves in the ocean are rushing. 

C: I feel the tears are about to follow, 

D: The waves are beginning to get to high,

C: As I begins to drown in his sorrow,

D: My breath becomes quicker, sigh after sigh.

C: The joy that they have, I want to borrow,

D: All I can think now is “the end is nigh.”

© Anonymous

The author's comments:

This poem is talking about how there are always thoughts in people heads and that they can not release their past from their mind. Also, I gave few metaphors to show a few different ways of sadness.

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