She, Wrecked

~

Among the wreckage

of her soul,

lie shards of ribcage

(splintered like

the stern of a ship

that has weathered

many a beastly storm)

and fragments of heart

(veins as thin and lifeless

as the gossamers

of waterlogged spider webs).

Sunken treasures

you could call these things,

waiting in this perpetual limbo,

this Bermuda of Lovers Lost.

"Girl, overboard!"

he'd cried

(even though he

had been the one

to push her over the edge

in the first place).

Imagine that:

wrists tied behind her

(what hurts more?

The rope burns

or the cuts?)

feet sweeping despondently

across that doomed plank;

she can feel her love's breath--

frigid as Neptune's sea-bound winds--

undulating against the back of her neck.

She turns around slowly,

and he shoots her that

pathological

barracuda grin,

promises her that he cares--

truly, he cares--

that she means something to him.

But many a treasure

a pirate does thief,

the truth

being one of them.

The next thing she knows,

she is plummeting

(watch how she did fall for him)

towards the convulsing

stretch of grey beneath her,

and as she whips about

through the bluster and the rain,

she stares up at him

with wild, pleading eyes.

She wants to scream out,

"Why?"

but there is no room

for words (or poetry)

upon the lips of the drowned--

after all,

dead girls tell no tales

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Image Source:

Woman washing up upon the shore gif (n.d.). [image] Available at: https://weheartit.com/Alina009912/collections/100377568-ocean-gifs?page=6&before=227763561 [Accessed 2 Jan. 2019].

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