Suddendeath poetry challenge: Bottoms up

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Anyways, rules are as follows, write a poem in any style using the five words that I give you. Write it in one sitting or in under an hour (only to quash your inner editor, rules are loose there). Add it here, OR link in a comment so we can enjoy each other's poems. The words can be in any plurality or tense. Today’s words are: bottom, down, low, under, last Below is mine: -------------------------------------------------------------- The sad pulls me under over and over again, Losses that I have, things I should have been. Forcing my mind back down paths I should have trod Painting my successes as little more than fraud. Low the sad takes me as it washes away I try to hold to my anchors but it won’t let me stay Under at last I go too tired to fight Lost I will be in water and night. Tight goes the lines that tether me to things So glad that some on me have tied their strings, For when I can’t fight anymore they hold tight, Whispering against the sad, they sometimes can fight. The fight that I can no longer fight for myself.