Sea Of Suffocation

• Charlie Kibble, Grade 10, Harvey Senior High School
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition

The waves roar and crash over me
Sending me deep down into the depths of the fearful unknown
It is cold, freezing at the least
The lack of air is suffocating me with immeasurable force
The ominous waves would do anything to see me lose this battle

Denial and confusion run over me like that of the ferocious and monstrous waves
Throughout the evil and tenebrosity these waves possess
There is beauty, pulchritude and pure calmness as the waves dance slowly in a rocking rhythm

The calmness is fulfilling in the sense that the sea is seeking companionship
To do that it must become apart of me
In my lungs, In my throat
The water is seeping into me

As corrosive as the thought of drowning is I've found my peace, unadulterated tranquility
Water rushes through my veins
At once I've been accumulated by the sea of suffocation