Quarantine

QUARANTINE

She and I outlived the world together,
Long after the oceans devoured the land.
we laid down together on the day the rain started,
In a clear casket we built many years ago.
We never locked ourselves in that tank.
Instead, we locked the rest of the world out.
Only one single key was ever made.
We cut it in half and left it on the shore,
as We drifted through the ocean in a glass box.
Billions of bodies danced lifelessly around us,
as the animals and humans were fed to the sea.
We remained dry from the aquatic world,
Unharmed from suffering like the rest.
While new life forms adapted and evolved,
they never really understood what we were.
The old and young always tapped on the glass
as their confused, incandescent eyes haunted us
with the innocence that mankind left behind.
The average dwellers never bothered us much.
Life was usually comfortable on the inside,
except in those exhausting hours of the day
when the sun beat us down from above.
The burns that scarred our backs reminded us
Of the danger we would surely face
on the morning the heat cracked the walls.
water filled around us as we sank above Chicago.
When the sun peaks out and glares off the waves,
and the ripples that reflect onto the ocean floor
appear to restore life to the streets and sidewalks.
The city is more beautiful when you drown with it.
You're forced into love when beauty surrounds you,
as the end of man restored beauty to the planet.
She stared down and held my hand as she finally died
And I held my breath so she wouldn't die alone.
my voyage ended with the plunge to the bottom,
where I lived for a moment as the last man alive.
But when I couldn't hold my breath any longer,
I breathed in heavily with a strong satisfaction.
because the freezing water will preserve our bodies
and the heavy moss will become our tomb.
Then we can finally swim about freely like the rest,
without our lives weighing us down.