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Submitted by Lizzie.Rose
'The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro.'
Write a story or poem containing, or inspired by, this line.
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I think i’m done
I think
It’s over
I’ve been
sent-
pushed
shoved
over the edge
I honestly don’t know how I lasted this thing
The ocean can taste my screams as i hurl words into the void
The sea can feel my broken heart as i dip my toes in the water
My tears see my fears
The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro
They know
I walk to my waist
It ...
“The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro.”
That was the last thing my beloved darling wife said to me, before jumping fearlessly from the Golden Gate Bridge, into the murderous murky waters of the San Francisco Bay.
She didn’t bother to inform me that she was literally standing on the brink of destruction when I called.
How could I be so selfish, so insensitive, not to inquir...
Heralded memories, horribly disgraced
Hallowed bond, laid tragically to waste
True love sacred
Stained to hatred
Like a violent drowning
Tossing me around
It
Dethrones
It
Disowns
It
Shatters my soul
It
Chisels
It
Collapses
It
Carves a sinkhole
It
Punishes the shoreline
It
Tears down my naked shrine
All jagged and barbed
Knifelike and slicing
Birthed of my own devising
What started as ripples
Ba...
I sat in the car seat when I was five.
I watched, but didn’t listen, as they squabbled. Little hand pressed to tiny ears, I blocked it out.
And that’s when they asked me.
“Mommy or Daddy?”
They bounced their opinions back and forth, like a painful tennis match.
The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro.
They asked relentlessly, but I never answered.
And so they split me in hal...
Water is a very relatable thing to me. Preferably ocean waters you see.
Like myself, the waters know
what it means to be battered to and fro. Waves crash onto the shore.
Nonstop
Constantly going and moving without seeing a solid rock.
Nonstop
It calmly flows while breaking on the inside,
Being admired on the outside.
Just like the ocean waters,
I’m always going to and fro.
Nonstop
My head s...
The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro. It despairs at the blood spilled within its depths. With every hurricane, they reach out for comfort to be met with disappointment as humans run away in fear.
The only person who kindly responds to them is me.
But I am moving out of state in a few days to a place where oceans can’t go. My dad got promoted at his finance job, and that requi...
The waters knew what it was to be battered to and fro. They had long given up asking why, having realized that questioning the relentless push and pull was as useful as asking a paper towel why it absorbs coffee spills. So they simply went with it.
Every morning, like clockwork, they were nudged awake by the wind, poked and prodded by the tide. The waters didn’t mind this at first—it was part of ...
The waters know what it means to be battered to and fro
Hoisted on high like the sails in the sky
With nowhere to go the pirates make landfall each night
When the waves roar and the rum’s all gone
Pirates blame their thirst on the sun
While the captain speaks harshly to his crew
The waves understood that it was too late for the few
who left the solid ground to journey aboard
Not knowing if or wh...
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