At Bottom on the Sea
In an instant, I was plunged down to the bottom of the sea
For a year or so in darkness, I barely knew that I was me
Didn't move, didn't think, immersed in deep despair
When no longer you can breathe, you've no need for land or air
Sleeping on the sea floor, perhaps to dream it all away
Then wake to my own screaming, lungs filling up with briny bay
Saturated with exhaustion, struggled up, thinking of homeland
To foraged on algae and plankton that I sifted through the sand
Waterlogged gut and aching heart, mind rocky run aground
Awareness of how abruptly I'd been knocked overboard and downed
But others remain living, who need my survival and are believing
That my affirmation is required that it is okay to keep on living
When one irreplaceable facet of the group has taken leave
So I undertake the struggle, to get back to the air and light
It's been years now, I won't lie, I'm still seeking to win this fight
Ascending, descending, rising-to-sink, not quite yet to swim
This battle is unceasing for a shattered soul des-per-ate to mend
But the absent one is with us in our mind's remembrances living on
And the uniqueness of his spirit that through our hearts is never gone
poem by DonnaJ York
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