The Lake

Poems From The Prompt Part 6

This poem is based on an image prompt from Alicia

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Rush of water

A drowned scream

Thrashing limbs

Submerged in a fluid mirror

Pulled far away from those I love

Though they never loved me

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Lost under waves

Rushed beyond reach

Choking on fluid mirror

Sinking down

Beneath the flow

I see a face

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Calling out to me

In a sing-song way

“Come here my child”

“Don't let the mirror choke”

“You should come to us”

“We will never let you go”

It looks out from a window

Of a old forgotten boat

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My gasps for air

Seem to calm

I can breathe again

Despite the fluid mirror

Trying to cut through my skin

Like an unforgiving wind

I swim to the face

Finding it easy

So long as I swim towards

It's beckoning voice

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I search for a place

To make it to the face

I find a hole

In the hole of the boat

I hear the face

Calling my name

I feel uneasy in my dread

I do not turn back

Knowing if I do

The face will make me regret

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I come to the room

Where the face calls my name

I see it there

Hanging from a frame

Still unmovably calling my name

It only has one eye

Covering its entire face

Unblinking it says through a means I know not

“Place your hand upon my brother's old frame”

“So that we can hang upon this wall”

“Until they dredge this lake”

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I do as I’m told

Knowing that if I don’t

My fate will be too

Drowned in this lake

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As time flows by

Faces morph

Bodies shatter

The fluid mirror

Far above

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More frames are made

Slowly filling up

Because no one ever bothers

To dredge the lake

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