Treading Water

by Annie Faux-Pas
23rd June 2017

The day I found you, I forgot myself.

I think I drowned, I didn't feel a thing.

Before I died, before you knew,

Before you saw the blanket smother me.

 

No saviour, no victim

No angels or witches

To watch out for.

 

Just a hole.

 

Did you stab me, when I was under?

Was it me?

Again?

Banged my head on the way down.

 

The day you forgot me

I lost myself

Fell

Bled

Drowned.

 

Before I died

Before I knew

Before the blanket swallowed me.

I know

I felt

Everything.

Comments

Thanks, I hadn't spotted that.

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06/11/2016

Type-o I mean - how ironic!

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Clare Williams
05/11/2016

Is there a type-I on the fourth line Vicky? Should this be blanket? I think the poem captures the agony of lost/ unrequited love though - at least that's what I got from it.

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