Deep In The Ocean May I Rest

• Hafsah Davids, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2013

In case i decide i want to go to the ocean and just drown myself by swimming out in the ocean until exhaustion or something scary drags me to the bottom,
i'm going to the ocean
and i shall never return
too wrinkled for a senior
and too soggy for an iron
i'll swim until i tire
and then sink,
peacefully to the floor
then down there with the fishes
i'll dream forever
no worries lying down there all alone
i worry about how i wouldn't even care
if i didn't take a breathe after going down
maybe i got so used to being alone
not even a flinch or a thought
my eyes closed
i went down
i left