Drowning but Learning
Drowning but learning — I plunge in the deep,
Fruit very bitter and rotten I reap,
Bubbles arise from the darksome abyss,
Falling forever, I weep.
Drowning but learning — the lessons are hard,
The mirror is broken, I’m only a shard,
Destitute, frowning, in seas with no base,
Hope cast away in discard.
Drowning but learning — there’s no justice here!
God is rejected, it’s money they fear!
Tethered in cycles that chew up their years,
Mammon is regent, that’s clear.
Drowning but learning — we’re going to hell,
The devil triumphant, the world in his spell,
Sordid black magic as sticky as sap,
Thrown in a bottomless well.
Drowning but learning — our Christ is bereft!
Grieved and indignant He rightfully left,
Castaway tribes, sinking into the sea,
Iniquity deadly this heft.
Drowning but learning — I mattered before,
Scratching and scaping, a cat at the door,
Briefly invited to tarry and stay,
Then sternly cast off from that shore.
Drowning but learning — God’s holiness weak,
High hedonism in suits ironed sleek!
God is a reject, abjured with disdain,
The wantonness gaudy dost reek!
Drowning but learning — it’s my destiny,
Ever, anon, here to plunge in the sea,
Mired in freefall astoundingly bleak,
Weighted in sin — never free.
Drowning but learning — I’m gasping again,
Lost in a watery grave, asking when;
When will the love that we knew ever rise?
Here in Cthulhu’s deep pen…
AD Lovkis, 18/08/25
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