2025｜Digital Photography｜Visual Poetry
- Title
- Visual Poetry
- Size
- 16x20
- Medium
- Photograph
Artist Statement
Thunderous waves rise over you as tall as skyscrapers
Crashing down like a cannonball
Your head is submerged
A violent rush of cold numbing your brain
Scalp tingling from impact
It happened faster than a blink
Your lungs scream for air
Muscles straining
Like knotted yarn being pulled
You’re trying so hard
Until the wave says itsit’s goodbye
You gasp for oxygen,
Purge out the heavy sea water from your lungs
Relief washes over you
It’s over
Until you realize that you are still stuck at sea
And the wave crashes over you again
And again
Over and over
You’re submerged under a wave
Weighing you down, as heavy as bricks
All hope feels lost
Then the wave washes away
And leaves
Hope flutters by
But then
Over and over again
You’reYour not even close to the shore
It’'s hundreds of thousands of miles away
And you’reyour stuck in the waves that stop you from moving
Stuck in the false hope that “it will all be ok again”
Stuck forever as you lay limp
Thinking
“Maybe an airplane will notice me,
Maybe the waves could carry me back to shore”
You think as the waves continue to destroy you
Taking your life piece by piece
As air becomes harder to catch
As more water sneaks in down your throat
As your muscles start to give away
Unable to keep you a float
“I will die here”
You think as you helplessly float in the waves
The storm isn’t passing
It’s growing worse by the second
As each wave submerges you
Again and again
And
You snap
Instinct takes over
Lungs are burning in protest
Legs starting to flail from exhaustion
Adrenaline pumping up and down as your heart races faster than a horse
Your arms move slice forward, fingers reaching to the shore
Which is slowly creeping closer
“Or is it a hallucination
Are you really getting there?
Or is the action of even trying starting to blind you”
You think as you slice through the water
A few feet start to feel like a mile
The water begins to feel like mud
Every second passing by like an hour
For an eternity
Until the sand digs into your finger nails
You can finally relax as gravity lets you lay on the ground
You rest
Until the next storm takes you away
Far at sea
At least you know what to do now