Drown

I howl my pain

dirge of agony

Throes strained sense

awareness

Aque rides my body on

down a beaten path

Days spill into one

Bleary hours melt

I yield yet no avvail

Spasms whip me further

torn by a fever

ravished without death "Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghostwhile memory holds

a seatIn this deistracted globe." - Hamlet

And in this river

I'll drown

By this cold river

I lay

Spitting entreatiesin servile breath

And in this river

I'll be undone

I hear the billows

through stranger thoughts

though stricken I aspire

to drown

Driven to greet death

trailing to the waters edge

I heave myself below

the waves

And cold water fills me

Seamless, without end

I blend from transience

Away from strain

in swaying light I flow

with the tides

to expanse of the ocean floor

in languid haze I drift

Sonorous through halls

echoes the ageless

soliloquy of the sea

ancient beyond time

I travel untold vistae

with lifeless eyes