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Sinking Sanity
Slither to your resting place
You vile, lying, thieving snake
I know you knew what was at stake
Yet you still threw it all away
As if you had not a care in the world
Now you really have none, into abyss hurled
You are the silhouette that I see on the horizon
Growing closer, I can feel your grip begin tighten
You wrap your hands around my mind and squeeze
Until the juice is dripping out, the cure for your disease
What relieves your self-inflicted pain
Has me caught in a migraine
Feeling like I want to drill a hole through my skull
The vessel of my thoughts, from impact has been hulled
This gradual decline,
Sinking deeper all the time
I won't be climbing in a lifeboat
No SOS, no vest that floats
I used to gloat and boast
About the cargo on my boat
Until deceiving words fell from your pretty lips
No getting off this ride, I'm going down with my ship
Published 13th Aug 2018
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13th Aug 2018 2:27am
13th Aug 2018 6:50am
In this poem the boat is a metaphor for the mind and the hull is the skull, so that line means bragging about intelligence and going down with the ship means sinking into insanity. The other person's "self inflicted pain" is them wallowing in self-pity not wanting to deal with their own problems, and the assistance offered would come in the form of words and reassurance, which is laborious for the one who is already struggling with his own sanity. I hope this clears it up a bit
