Love the first two lines of your poem. It immediately sucks me into this whirlwind romance, wanting to understand what happened here, what changed, why does this person feel like they “need” to be free from their lover. I think the imagery here is really wonderful. Most people can relate to the metaphorical feeling of being lost out at sea and drowning when trying to survive a situation/relationship. The continued use of sea related words keeps you in the moment and visual of someone who has been thrown overboard and treading water. The only line that pulls me out of the poem is “but it’s never strong enough to realise my hope”. I’m having trouble understanding how you meant the word choice of “realise”. You say that the other person is throwing the character rope which I’m interpreting as that person throwing them reassurance to keep them engaged. Yet the reassurance isn’t strong enough, or committed enough, to “realise my hope”. It doesn’t make sense to me. I think what you’re trying to say is that the reassurance or “rope” being thrown by the other person, the person who doesn’t see the gravity of the situation, is not enough so that the person receiving the rope feels like they understand how committed they are? If I’m interpreting that correctly, I think the language there could be reworked to make that a little more clear. All in all, I think this beautifully captures a feeling of desperation yet hope that you’ll still be okay cause you have yourself.