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A Watery End

Adrienne Sass Paek

Tell me again
How the ocean rose up
And swallowed you whole
Or did you kneel down
And welcome its waves

Did you fight the current
As it pulled you under
Did you cry out
In hopes of being heard
Or were you calm
At peace
With your waiting fate

Did you see our faces
Did you think of the family you were leaving behind
Anticipating
The pain that would follow

Your lover
Filled with despair
Your children
To grow up
Without a father
And the rest
Left
To pick up the pieces
Of your broken home

To bear the burden
Of being strong
Putting grief aside
To walk numbly through this world
Waiting
For reality to sink in

So tell me again
How the ocean rose up
To swallow you whole
Or perhaps
You knelt down
To welcome its waves

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