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Rivered Boy


I wanna be alright I’ll learn how to swim but the waters just so deep I’m sinking in no life guards around nobody to be found when I jumped in the river no one could hear the sounds Im gonna drown in the rivers of my mistakes Im gonna suffocate until my lungs break I try to swim but I wont stay alive I should have realized this before I dived And all the waves they crush me my body starts to break there’s no more oxygen and I began to shake it’s like a rush to my head a fire through my veins now is this real or is this growing pains Im gonna drown in the rivers of my mistakes Im gonna suffocate until my lungs break With this plea of forgiveness help me learn to swim throw me a life vest my chest is caving in I got a breathe left within me I’m saving it for the truth but if you don’t find me the words can never come loose Im gonna drown in the rivers of my mistakes Im gonna suffocate until my lungs break
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RMelanielf1007
This poem was written during a dark, lonely time of my life. I felt nothing could get better and I was drowning in my sorrows.

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