Writing Prompt

(TW: suicide)

A vast world –

Stretching before and below.

Unfathomable expanse

waiting in inky darkness

to welcome me.

Fear holds me fast.

Fear pushes me forward.

I adjust the bulk

surrounding my body –

the heft that will carry me

to my final fall.

Waves and rocking work in tandem

with my heartbeat –

here faster,

slower now.

I am already one with the sea.

Splash. ...

The cool, shiny water.

A glimmer of my imagination.

How I wish I could be,

A fish or dolphin,

How wonderful,

That I could see,

Through the eyes,

Of a wonderful world.

Never thought I could dream,

A dream so worth it,

A dream that would please,

My undying imagination.

(Sorry to torture y’all…

Had to write something?)...

A mysterious, expansive beauty

Rippling and glittering mindlessly

Ranging from turquoise to navy

Some would say frigidly fancy

Captivating, in all it’s glory

An unending sparkling quarry

It’s up to you to write it’s story...

Howling,

Raging,

Spinning on the radar

like a rainbow pinwheel

At a pride parade;

A war-like tempest

Flanked by white hot

Swords of lightning

Surges toward the coast -

Vexated - like an oceanic Titan.

Burning saltwater

Swirls around its judgmental eye,

As its thunderous voice

Demands that we answer

For our abuse

Of this dying planet....

A world within our world,

That few of us have been,

Submerged below the surface,

Mysteries never seen

A myriad of corals,

Of creatures we don’t know,

A place so full of wonder,

But few would like to go

Many lives been lost,

Taken by the waves,

Pulled beneath the surface,

The seabed now their graves

Vessels float on top,

Not knowing what’s below

Transporting many goods,

Some fast and some so slo...

The expanse of the horizon on a clear day

Making boats float in mid-air

A hazy summer melts the mind and tricks the eye.

The thought that you could fall off the edge of the world

All while laying on your back defenceless -

Mindlessly floating through space....

The vast below is less explored

Than vaster space above

A world of water, light and dark

The source of life and love

And through these currents might we find

Strange wonders, beauty too

Flora that would twist our mind

And vibrant fauna too...

The green waves writhe

Sensuous

alluring

clinging hands

Begging you with their undertow playing at your feet

Come,

come be with us

The warmth of our aquamarine sunlit waters

Sees many swimmers

Come and go

But won't you stay?...

Endless, true, rising, and fatal.

These are the things that you are.

I can’t see your end at the horizon.

I can’t find land.

True because your heartless.

Senseless and non-empathetic.

Rising because of us.

So blind to your truth and importance.

Bound by laze and progress:

Oxymoron, but correct.

Finally, fatal.

Fatal because your endlessness could drive a lesser man mad.

Fatal because your trut...

The turquoise waves fight me

They suffocate me

The rocks underneath

Scratch my feet

I slip and fall slowly

The salt fills my lungs

It burns inside

And the waves keep me pinned

To the bottom of the sea

Till I can no longer breathe...