The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans – 10,994 meters below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of ± 40 meters.
I want to be a maelstrom
because it’s difficult
to turn away from a disaster.
Look me in the eye
as I drag you to the murky depths
of somewhere in between
drowning and being free,
tainted flesh and salt water wounds
are easier to touch in the dark,
breathe me in,
before the sunlight slips out of reach.
Can we only find love on the sea floor
because that’s where shadows of desperation
overwhelms sanity?
Watch the rubies spill,
as rock bleeds into rock,
proving that I am broken,
just so you would want me.
As the octopus
wraps itself around my sea-foam heart,
it whispers its melancholy warning –
I am twisted, little one, run away or surrender
and I know I shouldn’t be happy
to give up my autonomy but
in that moment,
I could almost see anglerfish
dancing at the end of the tunnel
in the wake of my supposed destiny.
Neptune,
he did not save me.
Undoubtedly,
humanity thrives in
maladjustments and oddities
because we are the abandoned children
of the deep sea.
That’s why we soak up pain
and wish upon washed up starfish
that we can avoid the same inevitability
and for our agony –
to be special.
maggy liu 
Tremendous poem as usual. “Shadows of destiny overwhelms sanity.” What an incredible line! Your poetry is truly special.
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Thanks Robert!
I do wish I could be slightly more prolific and move away from my obsession with ocean imagery but I really do appreciate your support 🙂 (don’t boost my ego too much haha)
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If I can be deliberately non-poetic here Maggy- I calls them like I sees them! Quality over quantity is a good way to consider here. There is a lot of good stuff here on WP and a lot of eh…stuff. My writing can be kind of eh a lot of the time, but combining it with my photos and a song, it pulls together. And who cares if you have an obsession for ocean imagery. That can be your first book of poems when you get published. Then you can do something else!
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Beautifully written. You say you think too much of the ocean, but in my mind, I heard whole different & wonderful message. Artist paint a picture, but there are many different views. #NOTHINGMatters
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The message is definitely beyond the ocean, I’m glad you got something from it. Thanks for the feedback 🙂
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Not a problem. I be following in the future. You inspire me to think deep. #NOTHINGMatters
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thanks once again, so glad to have you here 😀
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I love the sound–and the sense–of that line, “wish upon washed up starfish.” Potent and palpable.
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thank you :’)
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