A DROWNED DAMSEL

A DROWNED DAMSEL

There is the ocean full of the moments 

I spent with you, all the memories go 

Back and forth come and come in waves at 

The Shore that I mostly visit at night telling 

My mind constantly slumber and take 

A long leap of dreams where 

I won't 

Find you hiding under a table telling me 

To join you, your unusual and cute ways 

Of making me come close to you

Feel out heartbeats dancing.

I go there and watch the ocean 

All Over I yell at it and cry at it, I eat 

The sand I that has traces of us in its crystals 

I run an extra mile to the coastline 

Running getting bumped in veils and

Crashing into mirror walls all, I see is escape from the actual 

Miseries I put my heart out of. 

Still 

Somehow I find my toes getting brushed 

Off by the ways, lost my travel in the 

Ocean of the unknown consequences 

And your memories take me away

At some point, there is no back just 

Forth I reach a point where there are no 

Traces of land, no human could hear

Me from that distance, survival seems

Hard now, I find myself breathless and

My limbs can't seem to move, my body

Syncs with soul and fall tired too.

I'm so helpless so hurt and yet find 

Myself every day at the same spot away 

From the real world getting lost in how

The waves move and I dive into nostalgia 

Your memories take me away, almost 

Drowning me, giving the near-death 

Experience every time. 

It's like I get 

Killed every day yet I'm here going back

To the shore standing there as if I won't 

Take another step and wonder 

"Where it all went wrong"

  - VAISHNAVI DHAMODHARAN