Drowning Poem by Maya Hanson

The sky is screaming
The moon is awake
I want to reach everything I can in this ocean,
make footsteps with your ghost
that fade away in seconds
like the bond we never made

I fall at your feet,
run a world away
I don't know what I want
but I need to let you slip through my fingers

I want to know you but
I need to keep living
and I'm afraid if I touch your afterglow I'll drown

The sky is smiling
as I kiss you away
moments and midnights
fading as I fall

But I have to fall,
past the beauty and the unknown,
past the wonder and frustration,
past being high on summer and perfect heartache,
through this sea floor
before I can breathe again.