Found Calm

I sit in silence

Waiting for something

Is that what life is

A fucking waiting game

Everything in my life has been given

Even my name

I hear my own thoughts echo passed the sky

Memories I can’t ignore

Reaching out to me, screaming why

And so I get exhausted, and where I am found

I must lie

I know I can do more

And so

I must try

Left crying no more

For I have found strength

Where do I go, for only myself

I must thank

My mind is a paragraph, in a page

That is blank

As I continue swimming

In

A

Bottomless

Lake

I will not drown, for the air

Has been given

And only on solid land

Will I try, to keep living

I swim to the shore

As the sun sets behind

My toes touch the sand

In a calm

I now find