Sinking Submarine
By Destini Beckham
Trigger Warning: description of near-drowning.
A submarine sinks fast but fills up with water faster, did you know that? That each second you spend searching steadfast for a way for the moment to last, that the water pools in alarmingly fast. Building up quickly steadily, climbing up the walls you were told would last, yet the water laps at your knees, oh if only you could make this moment last! So instead of drowning slow or would it be fast? You could pause time and make this last, so you have hope of rescue before your life no longer lasts. Yet you can’t so time ticks by, without a rhyme, and the water climbs forever climbs, it’s almost shoulder high. Then it stops for a moment it stops. You begin to see light, light? You can’t be seeing light, the water hasn’t yet engulfed your world, making you travel to the light. But there is light, beautiful wonderfully light, and voices so many voices, is there a fight? No, not a fight delight wonderful delight, you’re lifted from the water shoulder high, and hugged by your wife, oh what delight! Now you know why for a moment the water stopped its climb, and you know forever you’ll never forget the light.
Author Bio
Destini is a recent graduate from the University of Evansville, with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. She has a passion for writing poetry and short stories from diverse genres and had a short nature poem “Time of Colors” published in the book Together by The America Library of Poetry when she was a senior in high school. Through her work, she wishes to inspire others to not only create artwork of their very own, but also to become better individuals to themselves and to others. Her goal is to one day publish a book of her very own.
This piece was written during the author's senior year of college for a course in Short Story Writing.