Drowning Poem by Sally Walker

Swimming to the surface
Trying to find purpose
Cannot help but feel worthless
Can someone please help me turn my life around
I don't want to drown
But all I can hear is the sound
Of my heart being trapped in a pound
I feel that I am bound for failure
There will be no cure for sure
I wish my mind were pure as my heart
Not sour like a tart
How do I even start
I cannot part from what's been done
Unless I do so with a gun
That'd be so much fun
Yet I'm meant to run
To lift the tons of weight deposited upon every individual body part
The reason I am late to every unimportant date
I'll never find my perfect mate
Scratch that
I'll never keep my perfect mate
Perhaps it's fate
That I may gasp for air endlessly
With no release from the cord strangling my lungs
Nor the cobra tightening around my mind
Slithering into unknown destinations
Wrecking havoc upon the movie that is me