a dark poetry within the shallows of the water smothered by reefs, afloat black swirls of shadows gurgling water starts to choke “let me go, I can't breathe hands hold me back, they push me down” velvet crimson mixes, with the dense dusky liquid motionless limbs twitch as she she was about to reach- “was it fun watching me? the way I splashed, fought, and drowned?” deeper from the surface muddier it grows