A Secret Hope

A wave, crashing upon my head

Perhaps, wishing I was dead

The monster rising in the sky

Biting down, with a frothy smile

Beating down, and there I go

Drowning within, down below

Water crushing into my lungs

Tried to breathe, but it really stung

Pulling me in, into deeper sea

Where no rope, no help could reach

The ocean kept a secret cold

Which way was up, it never told

And so I sank, and sank like a stone

But I too had a story, a secret my own

The sea could swallow, and so it did

But my heart preserved, a pearl I hid

A hand reached into the inky depths

Desperately groping for the pearl I kept

Darkness with my last remaining sigh

I pulled myself out into the open sky

As many before her, the ocean tried

I know the seas would long go dry

Before I ever give up what is mine

They cannot steal, they cannot find

My secret strength, the 'hope' inside