Salty Waves Poem by Samantha Campbell

Salty Waves



Disruption ripples
spreading ever outward
in a pool of green water

Reflecting the color of
the forest all around

The leaf spins slowly
circling lazily

Finally drifting downriver
on a journey to the sea

Onward towards its destiny

Swept away on salty waves a leaf afloat
amid the foam and seaweed

At the point of total saturation
the leaf sinks slowly down
through the depths
through aqua-marine
teal blue to darkest jade
and nightmares
from the primal deep
swirl around thee

Until at last swallowed
by the dark abyss

Immense pressure crushing
profound black void
envelopes thee

Then a faint light flickers
hope flares and the journey
thru depression
finally ends


By Samantha Campbell

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
When I was 10 thru 12 I was in a deep depression I sat in my room and just looked out the window all day or til I had to go to school I hardly ate or said a word to anyone time flew by it was like I was separate from time one second the sun is blinding than I blink and it was night my dad dragged me back from where ever I was lost shortly thereafter I begun writing and this poem kinda represents that journey. I used nature as a metaphor because I find peace there serenity and I have poetry to save me from that place again
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