I Dare You
I wasn't surprised
when you cast me adrift into the gulf stream to float there all alone
with nothing but the memory of having been discarded
like some five year old piece of flotsam that washed offshore
inciting the fervor that I needed to swim back home
I'm fairly convinced that's all I was to you
plastic and durable debris that sticks around longer than it should
eventually smelling like dead fish stinking
a half a mile away in each direction
appalling everyone that has the misfortune to find it
Love, I kept looking for a lifeline
None came
But I've got news for you
I have the strength of ten men
I did the backstroke unafraid of what lied beneath the inky depth that threatened my survival
See,
I'm use to being at sea and have been tried before
I always come out laughing back at it's angry face
knowing that it was all a challenging test that brought out
the best in me
My entire life was all I had to lose
Come and get in; I'll count to ten
I dare you
poem by Sara Fielder
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