I'm Floating

On a pool

A lazy pool to be precise

Bobbing, spinning, and drifting

With no agency, choice, or care

Even as the sun blares down

Even as cicadas scream

I continue floating

With no agency, choice, or care

 

I’m floating on a lazy pool

With a drink in my hand

Fizzing with pretty colors

And cold to the touch

It numbs

My tongue, my body

And my mind

But that doesn’t matter

All I need to do is float

With no agency, choice, or care

 

I’m floating on a lazy pool

Surrounded by currents

The water is cool and refreshing

Deep and dark

Revitalising and calm

Terrifying and Oppressive

Demanding

Endless

But that doesn’t matter

All I need to do is float

With no agency, choice, or care

 

I’m floating on a lazy pool

I’m stuck

I’m scared

Any splash and I fall

Any thought and I drown

Any change and it’s all gone

I will bob

I will spin

And I will drift

It can’t matter, none of it can

All I can do is float

With no agency, choice

And I cannot care