Drowned

Waterlogged skies and orphaned stares

Embrace a world of stripped out color

Catatonic my gaze is frozen

Pruning skin clasped in soldiered prayer

This deathscape a gargoyle with its own heartbeat

Arteries flow with greying blood

Virga erupts in a **** downpour

Mildewed eyes stare straight through it

Staring and waiting still

Lungs flooded with ether

Eyes rolled over black

Are you closer to heaven

Or closer to hell?

Driftwood skin fastened

To bones cast in salt

Fade to black as lips slowly part

Words fail me submerge and drown

There is no current just a stagnancee

These lungs would rather burst than spare me breath

Spit out the air and sink to the bottom

Drowned