Mick Tomlinson - Saline Dream Lyrics

Poetry
On broken water peek thru
Ripples
See crab
And slop thrust
Scraping the sludge
Below belt.
No one has seen a thing,
40 below
Horizon deep water enthusiast
I see things
Learning how to swim
Maybe for the first time,
Not drowning

Dive into the vortex
Of swirling abyss
Suck me down
Dead weight denial.
Come up for air
Maybe, maybe not.
My goal
Is a sedentary test
At depth of oceanic ravine.
Suck in saltwater
Without drowning, and live
And write
And decode
The current-
But wait I haven't told you
The best part.
I have a fear of water
And you look like a warm body
Wanting to be filled.

Together, maybe we will breathe in
The chemistry
That will kill us,
But it's impossible to know
The flow of social seaweed,
Dear ocean
Sometimes you
Look stupid
Mid-afternoon.