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The German Ocean
By Anna Trombley
Seventh-grader at Presque Isle Middle School
I was pushed
off my Jewish raft
Into the water.
Its arms wrapped
around me
pulling me down.
The seaweed grabbed
my beaten ankles
And didn’t let me go.
The water pulled
my mouth open wide
Into my lungs it went.
I flailed my arms
trying to swim towards life,
But it got mad,
and stronger.
My last air bubble
slipped out of my mouth,
And into the hands
of the German Ocean.
The ocean left me washed up on the shore
of never ending nightmares.
I’m out of the German Ocean yet I’m still choking on water.
It laughs as it gets its next
victim while I slowly drown.
I’m out of the hands of the German Ocean,
Finally free.
