Abyss

Illustration by: Haven Jovel Morales

Submerged myself 

Into your waters. 

Baptized in a pool 

Of sorrow. 

Cement filled scars 

Sink me 

Into the depths of 

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         Cold, 

Dark, 

Lifeless

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I scoured for pockets 

Of warmth, 

But still cold nothingness

Was commonplace.  

Deafening silence filled that abyss,

But still I sought to find warmth. 

Beams of light 

Glitter in

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pixels.  

Skimming the water’s surface. 

I emerge from you, 

My love,

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You, My love,

                                                   Who has hurt me.

I emerge from your abyss 

Lonely 

and

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/ ken.