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I've held my breath

All my life

Waiting for someone to

Reach in

And rescue me

From these

Overpowering currents

Pulling me under.



I've submerged

Myself

In my own insufficiency

All my insecurities

Converge,

On the verge

Of drowning,

Because no matter what I do

It won't be good enough.



Engulfed

In my vain complacency

Thinking this vast ocean

Could contain

All my worry and hurt,

Buried beneath sands of

My wavering doubts.

It's hard to say if

I was trying to

Camouflage or disappear.



It was only when I

Hit rock bottom

That I discovered

My lifeboat

Was waiting

For me all along.

All I had

To do was swim

Towards the

Surface.