Drowning --

One word eight letters endless meanings.

I feel the waves breaking over me, pulling me under.

Water filling up my lungs and the empty hollow left in my chest where my heart used to be before you ripped it out of my ribs.

I can taste the salt water inside of my mouth like the tears that showered from my eyes while I kept repeating your name over and over again,

hoping that it would stop the stinging pain I feel whenever someone mentions your name.

I am suffocating. 

Every word of affection I ever told you is weighing me down, I stretch my hands out for help but there is no one to pull me out of this dark sea of remorse and regrets;

My love wasn't enough to make you stay, I'm drowning.

My body is a casket for the broken promises and the shattered hopes --

My body is a casket that holds my dead soul.

I can feel the tides rise and the waves breaking over me. But I'm too tired, too exhausted;

So I let myself be pulled under, deeper into the sea.

- Mahin Ismail

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quixotic

(n.) not sensible about practical matters