Submarine

I’m like a submarine 

submerged

reluctant to surface

drowning in the Pacific Ocean

of unfinished verses,

words entangle in coarse

punctuation twine,

line 

after 

line

after 

line

is telling me

to give it time

but I don’t have

the luxury,

if I don’t spit words

then they’ll get

lost in me,

submerged

never to surface,

a sinking submarine

of verses 

crashing upon 

the

underwater 

slope 

off 

Guam