A POEM

Incoming Tide

Jessica Archuleta
Nov 7 · 1 min read
Planisphere celeste, Philippe La Hire, 1705 (public domain)

Treading water
Losing feeling in my legs
Salt burning my eyes

Cold, painful chill
Knives pierce my skin
Heart is giving out

It would be effortless,
Sinking down into the dark abyss
No more fighting to live

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Jessica Archuleta

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Gratefully writing about food, culture, relationships, education, poetry +more| Happy wife & mama to 10|Hispanic woman| Deeply spiritual & religious💗POM Poet💗

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A collection of writings including stories on living life unapologetically, to the fullest, with intention & emphatically by Jessica Archuleta.

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