Sea Shanties
it’s a little bit like aching
when I wake up early on
before the light of the day
before the waves clash and wash
splash against the hulls of pearly sailboats
while the wind torments aqua and vermillion sails
a technicolor kind of torrent
and I find a bliss in it, a sort of heaven on the waters
letting my legs swim and my feet reach sinking depths
retract from the deep too afraid to feel cold or nibblers
too afraid to look down or out and see a face that is not mine
I find peace in it, in drowning, but not dying
losing and sinking deeper and darker into it
where entrails of water reeds and murky beasts twist me
chew on my skin to rid me of my fears
rid me of my eyes and my soul for it’s seen too much
embraced too much, too many totems of sunken treasure and sea shanties
it’s just that I don’t want to be that way anymore
lost on the waters of the golden lake
where the mountains lay sleeping like giants
where that house sits in the earth, across the docks
where she waits everyday, and he wiles
he yawns and he stretches and he faints in bed
after hours at his computer, without his boat
without the lake, without his fishing rod
without the will for life, the means to live
but with plenty of water to drown in
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Written on April 07, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,261 |
Words | 272 |
Stanzas | 27 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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