Thank You!
for teaching me to flip at every wall
despite the searing of my shoulders;
that the sound waves of my pain
must be muffled by chlorinated water.
for the nights that I spent thrashing my legs,
slipping my hands into the liquid void
for my path was reduced to the Black Line,
six feet below the surface, whispering
that the hundredth of a second matters
more than my years of burning sacrifice.
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Author:
AG (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: March 19th, 2023 13:49
- Comment from author about the poem: a love letter to the career of my adolescence. in all honestly, ive made some of the best memories a swimmer, but the relationship i have built with the sport is mixed.
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(Read your 'About Me') Know what you want to say first, and then choose the medium with which to say it. - - an opinion, not advice.
Enjoy your stay at MPS. It is an interactive space, and works best if we not only read but comment on other's work and respond to comments on your own.
thank you--I think that's a great way to look at it.
This is a fine poem and a good introduction to your ink if you dont mind me saying so ..
Oh' and welcome to MPS my new literary friend ..
Here's wishing you a long, happy and successful relationship with poetry .. Neville 🙂
thank you so much! it means a lot 🙂
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