Monday, April 14, 2008

1987

Ocean liner
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Spinning wheels
This is my nightmare
I slip into the picture
Can't swim
Gasping for air
She blows her horn
Dragging through the sea
Oh me, oh my
I'm being smothered
She screams, I scream
He's pulling me in
Up out of my bed
It's so cold, so dark
But my father's touch is warm
He kisses my forehead
I pant and cough up nothing
Thinking,
"I don't want to die,"
Whatever that means.

1 comment:

How Long Have I Been Asleep? said...

mmmm. I have joined the ranks of the blogspot brigade. Hopefully I will be better about keeping up with your writing on here than on other sites.

This is dark and scary. In the end I don't think anyone 100% wants to die. It is our human nature. However, the phrase at the very end of this is haunting. "Whatever that means". like even in the certainty of death there is something still so uncertain.