The Red Dress Club and I like to pretend I'm deep sometimes. Hope you enjoy!
The exact prompt was to write something around this concept:
"Water gives life. Water takes it away."
Here's my take on it.
Silence.
That is what I remember the most about being there, surrounded by the liquid darkness that had swallowed me.
The noise that was so deafening just moments ago was perfectly, blissfully silent now.
I opened my eyes and could see almost as little as I could hear.
I must be deeper than I thought to see so little.
Good.
That is where I wanted to be.
It was cold, freezing cold, but I was glad.
It was the most alive I had felt in longer than I could remember.
Weightless.
Suspended somewhere between the surface and the bottom, but really nowhere.
Nothing pushing down on me or pulling me in a direction I didn't want to go.
I was simply where I was.
I didn't want to surface again. I didn't want the noise and the heat and the blinding light to attack me again.
So I stayed
