[Content Warning] A slow drowning

In war
a soldier may die
- unable to move,
injured,
slipping down
into the mud
- an inexorable
unimaginable
drowning.

In peace
a commuter may die
unable to leave,
trapped,
slipping deeper
into debt
and misery
- an inexorable
imaginable
metaphorical
drowning.


Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication) I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)