Drowning............ Poem by Merlin Mwaura

Egress...
from a rough shade of darkness
deep an' hollow bottomlessness
not free,
and in bondage not.
Subsisting in nothingness,
pleasured by none
failed to find
to know
to want.
Lost to no causes.

Convicted to the bellies of ghastly,
unflattering circumstances and chance.
Chained to beastly notions,
attitudes known to no humanly gestures,
of a calm countenance.
Horror!
Terror!
Cold glassy eyes,
suffering,
lacking of all composure,
distraught with maddening mist.
Peering with frightening
Harkening pursuit.
Drawing and drenching
out with life and in with another.

Depriving an' denying,
of essential
of concern
of all that is man.
Tormenting silence,
hastely pursuing to sanity's edge.
lost to whispered echoes
of which
an origin is found not.

Dreary and dearly,
beseechingly,
calling to forms
out of desperate
'nd very late apprehensions.

Consist and persist,
ideas and convictions,
to pain in no gain
to vain and void,
to all vanity.
Empty hopelessness
creeping, crawling,
in sickening overbearance
Taking and taking,
more, more an' more as time keeps
to its pertinent duty.

Gazing ghostly grim
gloom of the impending...
and eventual....DROWNING!