in the third person
(a response to “Image Prompt #9”)

Photo by Tamyka Bell. Acrylic on canvas board by Tamyka Bell. “Image Prompt #9” for Imagà Imaginings

thrown
from the maelstrom
through this portal,
i cling
desperate,
hand
over
hand
crawling,

and there:

below,
beyond this sudden window

the seething, boiling hell
i have known so long

beyond
this sudden window

This is a response to the Imagà Imaginings prompt “Image Prompt #9” by Tamyka Bell

Image Prompt #9