Brine

Wrote this to play with the ideas of feeling emotional pain physically.

Salted eyes with anchors on my brow
My breathing ragged
as if I nearly drowned
Will canyons form on my cheeks
if this continues?
For how long will aches
live in my sinews?
I don't know if it would be better
or worse if we had more
I couldn't tell if it was a trench
I saw, or if it was a shore
I thought there was more sand
for the ocean to swallow
I began to leave my shell,
but now I feel hollow
Is there still time to retreat?
To go back inside?
Maybe this would hurt less
if I took this whole time to hide
Now I'm adrift
and don't know what to do
The night sky's harder to navigate
without the star that is you

Author's Note

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