sea

when

you

flip my world upside down

a couple of words and

water is leaking into my

makeshift raft

i was riding the waves

and now they slosh onto

my shaking legs too

weak to stand

too afraid to swim

capsized

wood and string and wet

tangles of hair and kicking feet

and

air: a breath above the surface

and bubbles and mouthful of words

lost to the rushing in my ears and

rough tumbling waves

my world flipped

upside down my

arms flailing to find the

break between the water and

sky but my head swims better

than my body and my

limbs drag on

lost at sea