Flipping and a flopping
gasping in the netting
a million dying bodies
grasping onto false things
and coming up with nothing
a whole species in headlights
looking up at the sky
cirrus clouds through fish eyes
day moon to the west, soon
I'll always be sleeping too
getting grand visions of
things I haven't been yet
swimming in this huge school
feeling so alone still
want to get away but
can't breathe the air or walk much
where I want to go
Sometimes I wish I'd get caught
looking for worms with a hook
following the tuna
I'd prefer certain doom
the big fish make the big rules
I don't want to adhere to
Sunlight cuts the surface
swimming with no purpose
then scooped into the dry air
gills in shock they don't care
then, sorting with their gloved hand
bad from good and waste
and too late to save my vitals
I'm thrown back in the water
sink down to the bottom
credits
from Fear Death By Water,
released May 29, 2016
Music and Lyrics by Jeremy Reitzel
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