i let you sit at my dock
never letting you get to close
but you said you wanted in
told me you wanted to swim
so you grabbed my hand
and fell too fast
into the black waters
of my roaring past
you claimed i should of told you
you claimed you never wanted this
your lies came out to play
and you jumped on the nearest ship that day
but my waters have now thinned out
and im floating across to all my dreams
i guess you never knew
that ship hopping would never bring you to
your place of dreams and easy things
so your asking me to take your hand again,
and this time i refuse.
- Author: Sugar Suicide (Pseudonym) ( Offline)
- Published: November 12th, 2017 20:58
- Category: Unclassified
- Views: 34
- Users favorite of this poem: Shadowbox15
Comments2
Wow. I love the imagery. Is the water symbolic of more than just your past?
its symbolic of the over-all feeling of my life. So at the time this person fell in I was fighting depression and constantly trowing myself in to past mistakes. At the end of the poem when the waters have calmed and I'm floating off to my dreams its meant to represent how things have worked out and I have things that are good in my life and everything that was once so dark and harsh, like the water, is now thin and easy to swim in. I could of portrayed that better but I'm still very new at poetry.
Agree with Shadowbox15. Great use of water as a metaphor for life and growth throughout your poem. Keep writing, keep loving, keep living.
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