By Nashrah Tanvir
I want to get off this bottom
And swim to the top
But I don't know how far the surface is
The only thing you can do best
When holding your breath underwater
Is staying still
I can survive forever here.
Except I don't want to be a survivor,
I want to live.
I've seen too many people drown
Halfway from the surface.
I'm not the best swimmer, after all.
But I don't want to survive,
I want to live.
Drowned bodies are the scariest.
You never realize how much water
Human bodies can drink
How disfigured they can get
Without ever being cut
How hope looks like
Before you give in to salt water.
Maybe drowning bodies drink a the water
So no one else has to drown in them.
I'll not be a survivor,
I'll live,
I'll live,
I'll live.