I Dream of Shipwrecks

You were drowning
And I couldn’t save you
Because our cell phones didn’t work
Underwater.
You weren’t looking for me
Because you could not see.
And you couldn’t breathe
So you could not scream my name,
So deep
Underwater.
I threw myself into the waves
Trying to follow you
into midnight fathoms.
Tiny bubbles escaped my mouth and nose
As I yelled to you
Underwater.
The calm silence below the surface
Pressed against my ears,
A clamp getting tighter
With every desperate stroke of my arms.
Seawater replaced your name
In my mouth and lungs,
And my muscles were ablaze.
But I dove down once more
In the hopes that I could find you somewhere
Underwater.