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jonmcm
Member

since 2000-10-11

Posts 222
England

0 posted 2001-10-20 06:28 PM

You cannot ride these waves,
With their steep fearsome sides
And their white crowned heads.
In their steady barrage they roar the message,
“There’s no surfing, swimming, floating.
There’s just engulfing, drowning, sinking
Down to the extreme depths of this sea”.

As willpower fades and fatigue begins,
The fight once fought well, is lost.
I am overcome, pulled down,
Consumed, overrun, and tamed
By circumstance in which I am immersed.
My mind is awash with just one sensation,
Which is that sinking feeling.

As the gas of life is replaced, by that which drowns,
I have no facility to breath in life;
Even though, locked within this liquid
Is the constituent for existence.
I see around me creatures that do survive,
In what to me, is an alien environment.
I do see that there is life around me,
It is there! But for me not yet attained.

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2001-10-20 06:43 PM

(big hugggsssssss) Oh Jonathan, I know this sinking feeling so very well, where my hopes dim and my willpower feels down, and I struggle to breathe! (sigh) My heart is with you always, dear friend, and I know that soon you will feel these joys in life and be embraced by great light! (big hugggssssss) A sad but wonderful poem, dearest friend! You have such a beautiful heart, dearest Jonathan, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

2 posted 2001-10-20 07:03 PM

Sometimes what is happening in our lives can give us this kind of sinking feeling. Being overwhelmed by it all. I hope things get better for you. You have put perfectly into words what many of us have felt from time to time. Take care.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Tracey
Member Elite

since 2001-08-29

Posts 2808
where insanity meets breeding

3 posted 2001-10-21 02:38 AM

Wow, you write that sinking feeling very well.

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

4 posted 2001-10-21 08:43 PM

My mind is awash with just one sensation,
Which is that sinking feeling.

hmmmmmm when I get this way..I go to my bed, close my eyes and dream away the sinking feeling.

((hugs))
~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

jonmcm
Member

since 2000-10-11

Posts 222
England

5 posted 2001-10-22 08:54 AM

Hi Mistletoe Angel, Startime, Tracey, & Nakedthoughts,

Thank you for all your kind comments, the poem was written some time ago, but I added a few changes last week.

So I'm more or less floating these days.

Jon

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