swim

it’s weird how it works
first a baby, at last a jerk
you eat, you sleep, you cry
you do enough to scrape on by
you love a lot
and then it dies
a sad and honest view
from a pair of green grey eyes

swim against the muck
swim harder still, you can’t get stuck
that muck you’re drowning in (swirls of sin, they suck you in)
i just watch the devil’s growing grin (kick and swim, kick and swim)
you can’t let that devil win

get me out of here
such pleading words
yet none revere
you’re deeper still
it’s so severe
but when that devil whispers in your ear

swim against the pain
swim, it’s flooding now, it’s pouring rain
the waters reach substantial gain
but Gods right there
he’ll make you sane

he pulls you out, he pumps your lungs

and spewing out from your sodden body

is a life's worth of anguish

all in one second vanquished