The ocean waves

A flood
Rising
Rising
Rise-
Gulp!
Help, help, I can't get any air
Get me out of here!
Please anyone!
No one can hear me scream
No one sees me down here
Underwater
in the deep

Push push
Patricia
Swim up until you see the sun
Kick kick hard
against the weight
of the water
Shoving it behind
Thrust up

Break
Surf
Gasp
Icy cold air
into my chest
Sweet relief wipes me clean
The warm light
of the sun shines
on my beaded salty face
and ahhh
it is heavenly

How easy it is when you are in the sun
Looking down over the waves
Their mighty ripples took tame and rhythmic
But ah the terror when one is beneath
And though hope there may be
It is still a breath away