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    Lifeboat
    Lifeboat
    Lifeboat
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    Lifeboat

    By Alie Day

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    Love, loss and life. Lifeboat is a narrative poetry compilation based on a true story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishing Network
    Release dateApr 30, 2022
    ISBN9781800686632
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      Book preview

      Lifeboat - Alie Day

      Misfit

      We are not invincible

      Our hearts aren’t made of steel

      Out skin is not unbreakable

      And each of us can feel

      The pain that is upon us

      Whenever arrows hit

      Spiteful tongues and flailing fists

      Where none of us shall fit

      Falling

      I am Falling

      And it’s not slow

      And it’s not delicate

      Stumbling through me

      Into you

      Clumsy and Catastrophic

      But I’m me

      Finally, I’m me

      Falling

      For you

      Quake

      I fell

      Cliff-dive

      Tumbling-alive

      Toes first

      Heart burst

      Water quakes

      And body shakes

      I hit the surface

      With a purpose

      But then your hand upon my head

      Fills my lungs with drowning dread

      Flailing, thrashing

      In the waves

      You drowned me, darling

      But that’s

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