themes: anxiety, trauma, longing

i used to think i was made of water

eight years of life away from sea

waves lapping against my amber skin

the ocean urged me to come home

but even as water brings life

it also comes to destroy us

there i was thrashing around

begging for my life one more time

i once swam faster than i ran

now here i lay sinking below

eyes burning lungs screaming

i never went back to the water