Challenge
Be Vulnerable
be as vulnerable as you can. write about dead parents or lost friendships. poetry or prose, no long stories. bonus points if you make me cry. $5 to the winner
bathe me in midnight ink and drag me down to the depths
pressure crushing my cranial cavity twisting me inside out
oxygen screams within my lungs its hollow cries go unheard
by your shrunken corpse among the fishes coral and bone
ecosystems inside your ribcage a world you’ll never know
filling the void in your chest where your heart once was
and i’m tugging on the tether one two three four five
but there’s no one bringing me up so i lay here
forgotten amongst the waves and shells and rubble
warped wreckage metal scraps propellers and a single sunken shoe
bathe me in midnight ink and drag me down to the depths
crown me in a ring of anemone
and hereafter i will lie with nothing but
a curious cuttlefish to stir my settled bones
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