Writing Poetry [WRITING FICTION - PART 2] - Keep Me Afloat

I'm drowning in a clear ocean of dark ink

and I don't think I'll surface

for at least for a year or so

to give them time to forget me.

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I cry and you label it sadness

as if that simple word could encompass

my heart's lost shards,

as if brushing it off makes it all okay again.

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I don't think you understand

not even when you promise that you do

because how could you understand

and still leave me in my darkness?

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My clothes are stained

with the blood-ink of tales you neglect to tell

but it doesn't matter anymore

because I know time will drown out all my worries.

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I fear that this is the last time

we say goodbye so

I promise to you, the fireflies

will light my way.

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In truth

I break the night's surface

and I replace my forsaken memories

in favour of another heavy tomorrow.

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I only hope

that hope

will be enough

to keep me afloat.

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