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Not Alone in my Sinking Boat


Bhurin

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Greetings everyone. With all the other stuff going on, I figured I drop in with some poetry to sooth my soul (and give my prose muscle a rest).

 

Just a little diddy I made. I thought it was funny when I first wrote it, but a friend said it was morbid and depressing (go figure). Now, I'm unsure.

 

Let me know what you think if you wade through it.

 

Enjoy.

 

Not alone in my sinking boat

 

At least I know I’m not alone,

Here, within my sinking boat.

As the waters of responsibility rush

Up to meet me, I know I’ll not float

Alone in the Sea of Misery,

The Ocean Of Regrets.

 

I see others who could not tear

Themselves away from the joy

Of life, for but a few moments, to

Check their backs, and destroy

The Marauders of Liability,

Escape their nets.

 

The signs were there. “Watch out!

That’ll bite back!” And how!

I did not take the advice of others,

And just look at me now!

With icy run approaching,

My heart frets.

 

Time was not a problem, though

Quickly I discovered that “someday”

Was not a day in the week. Hopeful

Though I was, now I pay.

Pay with woes and anguish,

To endless debts.

 

I look into the icy fringes, pleading,

Begging for a way out! I can’t swim

These waters! Too rough and violent

Are its currents. I cannot win!

I will not survive those cruel tides,

Those hostile jets.

 

But I do not pain in silence, and sufferance

Shared is exhausted right? Oh woe

Is me! A thousands wretched sorts

Could not feel, could not know,

The misery of wasted chances.

My feet are wet…

 

That polishes it. My time has come.

But, though the others try to fight

Against the inevitable, I know what

Went wrong and what is right.

I know from what I’ve seen,

And who I’ve met.

 

The only way to go is down, the only

Thing left to put off can’t wait.

I feel the cold rush encompass me,

I cannot negate of my fate.

Please remember my plight.

I will forget.

 

Signed-

Edited by: Bhurin at: 1/17/02 9:05:49 pm

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