Dark Poetry Prose Poetry June 3, 2005 Dark Poetic Prose

06-03-05 friday 10:27pm

strong as i am weak. alone even as they're beside me. because nothing penetrates. mother, brother, friend nor lover. they're all just people to me. asking when i can't answer. taking when i'm not looking.

it's time to leave me alone now, but they just won't. it's time they went elsewhere and i just remained here in myself.

because they can't make me better. and they tend to make me worse. because this ship isn't sinking. it's always been submerged.

save the passengers. but let the captain, as it should be, go down with her.

i don't want to float. while they're floating beside me. i don't wnat to swim. swim toward a place i've already visited. and would never want to go back to.

i just want them to leave me. go wherever it is people congregate. and leave me now. so exceptionally alone. so that at last i can stop treading and finally drown.