Sink Or Swim

• Layla Taduran, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2021

Plunged into water
can't hear a thing
drowned by my thoughts
I'm sinking.
The thing is there's no end
I just have to wait
until someone saves me
from my own fate.
But somehow, eventually
I fall back in
only to be aged
by my stress-wrinkled skin