But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

Billy Collins
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I live in this house,this house that has walls that feel like they are closing in.I feel like I am being buried alive.Sometimes I have to go down there after everyone else has fallen asleep,to take a short swim,or maybe just to listen to the rain.

Source: Sailing Alone Around The Room: New And Selected Poems

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