How many times my mind threatened me to drown—

but you in silence sat so near: "let me help."

Suffocating blood metallic, guilty laurel my crown:

how many times my mind threatened me to drown,

rust-stained ashes smother suffer spiral down

congealing needled skull slitting shredding rendered pulp

how many times my mind threatened me to drown!

But you, in silence, sat so near: "let me help."