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poem about the ocean i wrote awhile ago

So I'm like horrified of the ocean and going in it, and I wrote a poem about it in 5th grade and found it many years later and fixed it, so here it is:


Ocean, ocean, why harm me?
What satisfaction does my pain bring you?
All you do
Is try to consume
And devour me

I smell your salty waves
Promising me the joy I crave
Enticing, tempting me to jump in
But I resist
I watch from afar
Your waves have given me many a scar

Should I jump in, I would feel your strong force
I’d feel the gritty sand you’re kicking up,
Causing me harm, and feeling no remorse
Running out, once again
Feeling that if I stayed longer,
It would all end

I see your powerful waves, beckoning me
But my safety is something you refuse to guarantee
I won’t trust you for one second
As tempting as it may be,
I will not jump in
I will not lose myself to the sea

I hear your calls
They sound like sirens
Not graced with sleep, I hear your echoes in my walls
We have something in common, you and I
A strong will, never still
Telling a story
Wanting the thrill

I taste you in the air
The same feelings we seem to share
You call me to jump in
But I shall not
Instead I spend time with your companions, sand and sun
Boring, but at least I’m alive when the day is done
But, is it really living
When nothing is exciting?

Again, I am drawn to you
With my entire being
This time, there’s nothing I can do
So teasing, and so tempting
Expecting me as I come running
I jump in, knowing well what you could do to me
I see your once-friendly wave, before it comes crashing down,
And my body is claimed by the sea



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