Can I escape
An everest of afterwards
Take my place
Among the oceanographers
Take my pulse
Alive, alive, alive, oh no
Don’t get so close
We dive, and dive, and…
All is fine for now
Till these final words
Came choking out
And your eardrums burst
In epitaph
My final verse
Still choking back
The lines that hurt
The timing’s off
Been drifting in and out for years
Synapse that pause
Like keeping up with auctioneers
The pressure drops
Alive, alive, alive, oh well
The blister pops
We dive, and dive, and dive,
When it’s fine it breaks
The lines you cross
Won’t scare you straight
From breaking laws
When it might inflate
But it doesn’t float
Prepare to raise
The periscope
Beyond the walls
Outside the gate
Between the lines
Beneath the waves
Through telescopes
By some mistake
We’ll stumble on discovery