She said that once and it ruined everything
Said she was drowning
He listened, but didn’t send help
He went down beneath the waves instead
to where she waited
and together they descended through the depths
breathless and slowly losing consciousness
sunk into the void
through fevered hallucination
until he awoke
thought better of the thing
and surfaced
as she stayed to drown alone
but stubbornly she
refused to die
and would not disappear
is treading water still
waits beneath the waves
for an answer to this dilemma
would offer her heart to the depths
in order to retrieve her soul
Lies shipwrecked and broken on the stones
but she is growing stronger
and one day yet will rise