Jack Nichollas Baxter
I want to walk into the ocean
And never be seen again
Let waves wash over me
Swallow my sins
I will plunge head first
Abandon hope of rescue
Feel its freezing embrace
Its icy love I deserve
I will hold my breath until my lungs burn
Feeling something again
Then gasping it all out at once
I will watch bubbles rise to surface
How deep I’ve sunk
A storm rolling over me
Crash of thunder like laughter
Let my limbs drift
Finally free of
Care and pain
Ears finally hear as little as each other
Screaming of the world suppressed
Or was it me screaming?
The tidal motion holds me
Follow me
Let me finally let go
No shackles down here
Only depths and dark
My eyes see as well as they can
For the first time
Sightless orbs crushing under pressure
Like my soul is
Will I ever reach a bottom
Or will I sink forever
Like I was still ashore
I see and feel things never before
The first of the world to
Or so I always thought
Because no one else ever felt this
Did they
Could they
Why didn’t they say
Cold
Author: Jack Nichollas Baxter has been writing for twenty years in any form he could. Published music reviews and interviews, unpublished poetry by the hundreds, an entire cast of different Dungeons And Dragons characters. All writing is worth writing and he loves it all.
Artist: Irene Liao is a visual art student from Taiwan who aims to present figurative human art through her watercolour pieces.
Editors: Bea Warren and Euri Glenn