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[aid] => mick
[title] => Drown In Emptiness
[time] => 2009-12-28 10:42:25
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[bodytext] => As I dreamt I got this feeling It surrounded me, slowly suffocatingly I was beneath the water's surface sinking sinking past the water's inhabitants sinking past the murky seaweed that grazes my face as I go past I look up to the surface and see the underbellies of fish who look at me as if I were intruding in their home, instead of drowning I look up to see the sun-glaring like a disappointed parent who knows their child can do better as if drowning were an option I look up to the sun-stretching his fingers like he is trying to reach me or hold me under My arms are empty, my hands outstretched clawing at the water, to resurface yet knowing I won't my hands appear as though someone else's beckoning me to come closer, to stay never breathing, never dying and then I wake up [comments] => 0 [counter] => 136 [topic] => 13 [informant] => FragileStrength [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )
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