Jellyfish

I'm questioning my whole existence why am I here.

Jellyfish
See the thing is
I wish I could dive deep into the blue abyss of the oceans
I want to swim into a current that carries me away
but at the same time takes me exactly where I need to be
I don't ever want to remember what it was like to gasp for air
I want to effortlessly survive in a way where breathing is as natural
as just me plain existing
the thing I look forward to most though-
is the graceful elegance that is the nature of swimming
When you are a body of cells with no characteristics that make you
by definition "alive" that is actually when you have the ability to live the most.
I want to let the ocean just take me wherever I need to be
But while doing so I am captivating all other creatures around me
When I am making a love dance with the ocean you can't help but stop and stare
my beauty is so rare so enamoring it draws you in-
if they wanted to, anyone could just watch me exist for hours
But the best part about all that beauty
is knowing that you are enticed and so overwhelmed by me -
you just want to reach out and touch me more than anything you could ever
imagine in wanting anything more in that moment.
And that is what i do- I draw you in and you become entranced.
But if you touch me-
I can provide the most pain you could ever possibly feel
I could make you drop dead in a matter of an hour
or I could make the stings feel like tiny sharp daggers are penetrating you and wont stop until you beg for death
See- I am both enamourously beautiful, but deadly at the same time.
That is what makes me so damn beautiful. You get addicted to my elegant existence just to throw away your life and risk death for me
Yeah- I just want to stay in those oceans, going to as many waves of water as I can
I want mother earth and the sea to guide me, Because I am finally home.
When I can be that, I won't feel so alone anymore, and that's all I want.
I actually just wrote this in a matter of minutes about my all time favorite living creature which is a jellyfish. They are my favorite animal and I obsess over them so I wrote about them and it sucks but don't judge Im new to this poetry stuff. I just really want the world to know how much I love jellyfish. © 54 mins ago ocean • jellyfish • beauty • nature • poem • obsession

Reviews

[DIVYA]

The jelly fish is an amazing creature. An absolute shapeshifter full of impossible colors and flames and terrifying tentacles too. Who'd think a floating blob of jelly would be so painful. Yet the sting is so telling.

[willweb]

Nicely done...put a space between the poem and your explanation of writing it quickly.

This was very cool though and is something to think about, floating freely, no cares, no worries like a ballet in the sea.

[aculotta21]

Yes they are my favorite animal in the world and for those reasons exactly that I wrote about.