My Watery Grave

by Jenni Marie   Nov 8, 2006


I can't breathe, I can't see
How did this happen to me?
I'm choking, fighting for my life
How did I end up in such strife?

It seems hours ago that I was on that boat
Is it really only minutes
I fell overboard without my life jacket coat?

I'm trying to scream for help
But waters rushing down my throat
It's making me cough and splutter
It's making me choke.

My breaths are coming quick and fast
They are hurting my chest
Please don't let this be
My final place of rest.

My eyes are hurting and stinging
I can hear a kind of ringing.

I keep trying to swim
To get my head out of the water
Please, mummy, please
Come and help your daughter.

My whole body is tense with pain
I feel like I'm going insane.

I have six precious minutes
Before my brain starts to die
Starved of oxygen
I think this and start to cry.

The water rushes down my throat
and inside my ears
I feel like
Death is very near.

The water is murky
I can see plants around me
This is the last place on earth
That i want to be.

Fish are swimming past me
All bright colors
My vision is getting dimmer
The world is getting duller.

I throw my arms upwards
Trying to swim
But the water pulls me down
The sea is going to win.

I wish I had been more careful
I wish I hadn't got on that boat
I wish I had wore a life jacket
Then I'd be able to float.

But now I'm sinking in this water
I can't reach the shore
Oh God I can't even breathe anymore.

My hands flail about
My legs are kicking hard
My arms are scratched and scarred.

I'm starting to feel dizzy
I'm starting to hallucinate
my brain is quickly dying
Is this really my fate?

I just want to reach the surface
I just want to be safe
This has to be a dream
Just a silly mistake.

But I continue to sink
I need to be brave
But I keep on falling
Deeper in my watery grave.

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  • 18 years ago

    by Elizabeth

    I like the poem, just not the face of drowning. that my worst fear!! but i love the decription of your words. and how you tell how you tell what your body is going through

  • 18 years ago

    by AnnMarie

    Very good poem! The flow was nice, and not to forced. Very different, not something one reads very offten

  • 18 years ago

    by Moon Princess

    +.+ Everyone writes so long!! Lol. I too lazy, so I'll just tell you I liked it. :). I liked how you described it, how she was feeling, and the scenery. It's sad, cuz she's regretting not wearing her life jacket, and now it's too late..:( +.+

  • 18 years ago

    by twisted reality

    Ooo. This has to be my favourite of yours. It has such emotion under layers of a story. But I think it should be in the sad poems or the dark poems instead. I just think it would make more sense.

    Again, the rhymes are cliche, and I know you can do much better. Your style seems to go all over the place with the stanzas. One is like 4 lines, and then a little bit farther, the stanas have like 2 or 3 lines. o.O It confused me. Lol. I don't know if it's intentional or not, or whatever. I just thought I might point it out. It made me kind of confused, but to others it may not. I'm not 100% sure lol. =) 5/5 xoxo

    Samantha

  • 18 years ago

    by ~*×FaÐ3D‡‡M€mØ®Ïê§×*~

    Wow, this 1 was pretty long, but you still managed to keep me intrigued thru the whole thing, great use of words... 5/5

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