Poem: Engulfment

Ok, I haven't written poetry since college but sometimes the way I write speaks to me poetically. After rereading the post I did on Engulfment I wanted to take some of the pieces and put them to verse and this is what I came up with. Good or bad, I think it captures what it is.

Engulfment

In the ebb and flow we try to hold on. Desperate,

devoted, evasive and subversive: Counter-dependent.

Rocky nights a death grip, quick

clutches my heart; drowns it in a bath of ice.

Lungs constricting, only thinking, how to make right

which wrong was done. Self-worth rides

on one small smile to bring us back into balance. Except;

there is none there to begin with. Only him

leading me to madness, the insanity wraps

around my mind like a shroud: Obsession.

A thick fog occludes my world.

One figure focused

two feet in front of you. Nothing

more, nothing less; nothing else matters.