Reality
Anna Timmins 2004 (Omaha)
I could feel this fiery sensation
Pulsating throughout my body
I tried to breath, yet I could not
My instinct was to push through the pain
When she had thrown me in the water
I had no way of knowing what would happen
I was sinking
like a rock in the middle of the ocean
I couldn’t see in front of me
I couldn’t breathe at all
And there was certainly no hope left for me
But suddenly my body just understood
My body started doing all of the work
I pushed and pushed
Till all the sudden my head popped up
like a seashell in the ocean
The worst was over
Yet it really wasn’t
At any second it could all go wrong
My body could give out
I could just give up
All I could do was try to stay ahead
For I feared that, if I moved
It would all just suddenly be over
My head above the water
I moved my arms in unfamiliar patterns
Too scared to stop what I had been doing
Then my friend came rushing in
Helping to save my life
As she pulled me out of that moment
And back into the reality that was mine
About this poem
It's based on something that actually happened to me.
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Submitted by annatimmins3 on October 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,003 |
Words | 214 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4 |
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