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Drowning

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Fire burns and blisters your skin

So you jump into the sea to save yourself

Because drowning is safer than the flames

Because pushing everything down is safer than feeling

Because every step is agony and you can’t stop the pain

Feel nothing at all so the pain can’t destroy you

Be numb

Because the pain of feeling is too much to bear

Be silent

Because crying out makes it real again

Swim deeper

No

Don’t let it happen again

Don’t let yourself be caught, dragged up onto the butchers block, and skinned, and cut and filleted into a million pieces

Swim deeper

Until all you can see is darkness

All you can feel is the pressure around you hugging you close

All you can hear is the crushing silence

The darkness is blinding, the pressure cracks your bones and the silences is deafening

But the flames up above feel a thousand times worse than drowning

Because even with the promise of joy and happiness and laughter it’s not with the risk of pain

Because it’s not safe up above

Because once you thought you were safe and piece by piece they cut you away

Took everything and made it ugly

Made memories into nightmares

Made laughter into screams that no one could hear

Love became fear and safety a lie

Swim deeper

Where no one can hold you, but no one can hurt you

Because you can’t trust anyone

Because anyone could be holding that butchers knife behind their back

 

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