A wave and an ocean

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[Hello, I just joined this site, and I love it. A great place to post some of my poems and get good advice, I wrote this poem in my room and would like to get some opinions/feedback/advice. It would be appreciated, thanks]

A ship has sailed
perhaps it was not for me
I let go of the ports rail
and fall beneath the sea.

This is how it is;
nothing to grip
just drifting
weightless
I open my eyes
the blue is overwhelming
I continue to observe
learning curves
reside nowhere down here.

A consistent deep ambiance of monotone pressure
hits me
attempting to intrude.
Is that who I am;
I observe the blue
no
THAT is you.

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I like the mysteriousness of

I like the mysteriousness of this poem. The ending is particularly mysterious. I like that.

However I feel that the rhymes hurt this poem. Rhyming in contemporary poetry usually weakens the poem.

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