Subaqueous

Mother, human Walks the sandy stage Salt water spits at her feet Mocking the death of her son Her skull swollen with grief Her heart throbbed a slow waltz A rhythm with which she dances Into the sea Bodies of creatures ill-famed Kissed by suns none Possess abstract burdens In which their young are devoured The mother's heart Surrounded by crushed lung Beats no more Cetacean calls, for the death of their young Mother human sinks, for the death of her son Human swam towards their call She swam... Seized by sub-aqueous tide Human and whale sank even further Deeper, deeper, deeper The trench beckons equivalence Mother The burdening depth of the sea Has swallowed your son Cetacean The burdening depth of the sea Has swallowed your young Mother The burdening depth of the sea Has swallowed your son I drown

Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026

Weight, incomprehensible Covers the shoulders of lava With solemn detest Deep trench, whose slaves Are unwelcome to enter Whose skin covers your floor? A human His carcass obliterated Pressurized Blood spread thin Across the sea floor Joined with the water Somehow His shadow walks Strands bleeding Attached to The cloaked vessels Slowly angle his neck upward To see sunken mother's shadow, dead A face's silhouette Grew out of the Earth Its mouth screamed and cried Trauma personified itself As tectonic erosion He who is the one who Does not sleep Is father of all This weight, incomprehensible Pulls everything into the mouth Of Father Sub-aqueous Deeper still we go I drown

Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026