Waterlogged - Broken Hope

In the deep underwater I am sinking

Water, H2O, soaking my pores

Lungs filling with fluid, impairing

Struggling beneath the surface for oxygen

I cannot, for my life swim to save myself

Plunging beyond the surface into an aqueous tomb

Submerged I spiral down to the darkest fathom

Screams are merely bubbles from my lips

Skin and organs swell from saturation

Bursting vessels in my body

Saturated, disfigured and swollen

Caught by the current there is no escaping

Lodged under a log entangled in seaweed

Sand encrusts every orifice

Covered with silt in an unmarked watery grave

Settling upon the bottom I lay upon the sand

Fish gnaw away at my lips

Crustaceans dine upon my swollen flesh

Within this underwater world

Surrounding me, smothering thee

I suffocate, ocean my fate

Beneath each wave, I’ve found my grave

A sodden corpse, waterlogged