themes: lust, shame, boundaries

if water is what brings us life

quenching every barren land

then your touch is my resuscitation

holding together all the fragments

if water is what brings us death

suffocating every open lung

then your words are my extinction

breaking apart every last hold

the drowning was my emerald shame

your cerulean betrayal tore it open

helplessness rippled through to the bone

when nobody came to save me

but after months alone at sea

i come to learn how to trust again

you grip the hips of my ship

and i'm the one steering this time

i'm no stranger to the sand's embrace

as the saltwater finally drains out of my gut

inspired by CORE by thirstymalfoy