Swimming in the dark pond
My muscles acidify
And the black water
drips into my mouth
I am drowning
I can’t do it anymore
So I let myself drown
I let myself feel
the panic
the pain
the fear
My body convulses
The moonlight can’t reach me now
And no hand will pull me out
My lungs fill with liquid
And I die
I die but my soul is alive
And I drop to the bottom
of the pond, the slimy sand
My soul calms now
in this black nothingness
My body may be dead
But my soul has never been
more alive
