Tritons' Rival
Sick as the tomb, your lids
Are dry as symphonies
Conjure your own eyes
Travel towards the sea
Reach down towards its spring
Hold hard the revelation
Shun what mermen sing
And know no hesitation
The cold of upper clearings
Somewhere out in space
Where water has no power
And cannot tame your ways
There I see you fit
As a star I've known
Grown into immensity
Until you go unknown
I oil the sails and feel
Wind is at my side
See, I've captured history
Just like a butterfly
The undulant tides don't know
How their powers ruin
As I undo careless hate
And blast away the tomb
Where magic dies and hell
Begins here on Earth
Yet the curse, yet I hurt rivaling the sea.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
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