Breathing room

[kryptonitemonkey]

Struggling beneath the surface of the mire
The clutching grasping hands reach
Desperate to escape the burning scorching fire
Within the deathly earth's breach
Breath escapes with a fury of lost time
The weight pressing down so hard
Leaches strength away within the mucken slime
And it burns like a molten shard
Soiled tears leak swept far gone and away
It clutches with a greedy grasp
Not a word escapes with nothing to say
Sucking still a final leaden gasp
Twould have been better to have done and gone
To have said goodbye and no more
Not to have played once more in the murky pond
Too late sunken to the deceptive floor
Swept away with the tide after letting go
No more thoughts their own
A bloodied head from self-allowed ugly blows
All thoughts the same alone