Chewed up and spat out.

I let it swallow me whole.
The tide as it took my body and drenched me in its current.
Pulling me under until my hair is covered in seaweed
And my flesh wrinkled.
Saltwater scrubbed my skin clean.
Hard enough to strip me of the natural sodium keeping me soft.
Twisting me around, turning me side from side.
The waves dragged me downwards  
Until the deep end became my only end.

Once, it spat me back out on the shore
I found eyes waiting on me.
Looking to run on this beach with you.
When I’m returning from a trip in pieces without knowing how to walk.
Its odd,  
I crave the water again but, not in the way it was.
In the way I wish it could have been
To swim without the fear of drowning.
- Chewed up and spat out.