In To The Drowning River Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

In to the drowning river
with its furious cascades
let me fall now
from the giddying heights
let me fall now:
and then as dusk evaporates
in the hazy trembling
initial twilight changed to
chameleon colors:
then
let me drown at the fringe of
night
just as water-wraiths out of
the sea
leap waist-full to the skies
half sea half out of sea '
so be I
but I
drown slowly, slowly down
to the full liquid bloom
the benighted sea kingdom of
drowsy Neptune:
the night
this night.