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Underwater now

Falling leaf

Bubbles rise to heaven

Abandon ship

Limbo now

Surface and floor

Still silently downward

Slower than before

The leak was discovered

A patch, a plug, a fix

Still a chance to stay a float

Still the light, still the air

To no avail, effort spent

Water consuming every inch

All in vain to prevent

This creation unintended

Slowly inching, blacker still

No patch available

No fix on deck

To bring this ship back to surface

Has it been decided?

Is this the fate?

Haven’t hit the bottom

Is there still some other way?

Worthless, not worthy

Of any real effort

Lost to the sea

A child of the water

Not the end, oh no

A new, your purpose is

In the depths you provide

A new home, in your death

But is that why you were created

Is that what you wanted

To be below the surface

And your existence forgotten

Save yourself, you can’t

Molded by unloving hands

To the depths, we say farewell

With a tip of the captain’s hat

-Quasimodo

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