Dive by Sarah Paez

The walls bleed

Seeping visceral slime of knowledge

Outside, flowers bloom

Deep red poppies

Staining my retinas

Like the cataclysmic

patterns

latticing

Across the floor

As if you were

Climbing on a garden trellis

But instead

You sliced a chasm

In the water

Watched it glide

Through your conscience

We became an entity

Shrouded in cotton

Walled in

So we clawed our way out

The sun just

Dawning upon our backs

Noses turned up to the

World’s gravity

That anchored our minds

But we tore off our clothes

And soaked in ultraviolet

Radiation

Crescent moon smiles

Upon our fiery lips

Igniting the dusk

and the murky labyrinth

Echoes of our once-lost thoughts

Now brighter than crystal-studded

Caves

Brilliantly

We escape from our graves.