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Poetry
Castaway
Giselle Valdes
Gazing over an enticing abysm
My feet, submerged in quartz of crystals
You, undisturbed by my inertia
Your apathy caught in motion
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My hands splashed, my body sank
My energy faded by the second,
But I still couldn’t reach you.
I know you heard me screaming … Save me!
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You never looked back, and I kept
Losing myself, clogging my chords
Smelling death
Invaded by unscrupulous water
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My jewelry battered by inevitable corrosion
My flesh, degraded by voracious bacteria
And my spirit consumed by an infinite silence
Not the sound of waves, but rather that of oblivion
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The unknown terrified my shattered loneliness
Amused and depressed
Mesmerized by chromatic creatures
Contrasted with heart-breaking darkness and depth
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I gave up
It was too late
Revealed as a corpse,
A hopeless castaway