Submariner

“Deep Blue Abyss”
Painting by Paul Tokarski
From fineartamerica.com

do you know who I am
here beneath my own sea
the deep waters of words
I released on the tides
never knowing what shore
they might reach if at all

do you know why I write
why I’ve chosen to live
in this literate ocean
with creatures who can’t
read a word but who pass
every poem through their gills

do you know why I swim
in this cold crushing darkness
displacing with each striven
stroke a whole lifetime in
churned cavitation of thoughts
burst as soon as they’re born

do you know or not care
either way hardly matters
for writing at crux is a lonely
affair independent cerebral
well suited to drift the abyss
here beneath my own sea