Submerged

Lying again on this wet floor,

the rain hasn’t stopped for weeks.

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The waves rise, and rise,

enveloping my body again

revealing, then releasing skeletal remains

leaving them behind, like a note to say I’d left.

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Submerged beneath these waves,

every creature was apprehensive

the bodies were in piles

the ash would fill our lungs.

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The sky was red and distant,

the sun its watchful, cursing eye

it all seemed so simple then,

the complications

killed us.

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A gradual progression.

We boiled, lying still

a hand left on the stove

a hundred thousand killed.

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Lost between the bars,

our starving stomachs cried for help

the tears we shed were soon replenished

in this underwater hell.