Five Minute Flash: Day Nine

Five Minute Flash: Day Nine

Sep 09, 2021

I wanna swim the ocean deep

See what undiscovered beauties it keeps

Sink down to the seabed 

Rest my head

Hope I don't get eaten… 


The pressure down there that would crush you 

Might balance the pressure on the inside too 

Treasures the human mind wouldn't believe

Not gold, no bounty, no place for thieves

Poseidon won’t be beaten


Untouched by the corruption of human hands

Down there nature reigns and chaos abounds

Presumably, anyway, we’ll never find out

Venturing there is to submit to the hounds

The waves mask the feasting


It's the urge to breathe underwater 

The same one that tells you to turn into oncoming traffic

Or wonders what might happen if you took one more step

While you're looking down at the pavement below


Trying to unscramble the words

Written down in semiconsciousness

When the mind runs overactive at the point of exhaustion 

You'll never get them back 


So why do we spend life looking back

Over our shoulders 

Time’s still passing

Still getting older.

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