In her poem, Not Waving But Drowning, Stevie Smith depicts a man, dead or dying from drowning, whom others thought was simply waving to them. The poem can be used as an illustrated warning regarding the possible results of our failure to reach out to the lost.
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
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