For you, I’d do anything

Shrink myself

Tie an anchor to my waist, sink to the bottom of the ocean floor

Sit still as I suffocate
Grow gills

Watch as predators catch their prey
Pray that will never be me
Afraid that it already was

I shrank myself for you
I silenced myself for you
I Tied an anchor to my waist and sunk to the
bottom of the ocean floor for you

I lacked breath but nothing was as suffocating as swimming in your ocean

The sharks don’t disguise themselves the way you do

My body wants to burst from the pressure Beneath your waves

I watched as gills were forced through my skin driven by the women who came before me

Silence is survival they whispered in my ear