Nautical Themes

Nightmares last forever because they’re only ever dreams

That last in every fading light of long days that cannot be

We think we live in waking moments, sunlight red and breaking dawn

But planets die even as they rise and morning plays such silent songs.

We wish that we could hear it all, that we weren’t such tragic strings

We are sailors starving in the sea, alone and wishing the sirens would sing.

But even the oceans have been emptied, even the waves have gone away

The sails fall before windless skies and mortal anchors have been weighed.

We stand in silent mourning of the lives and dreams we thought we’d lead

We pour the blood of it all in goblets but even our gods do not believe

That we could ever be worth more than the dirt of the earth, our failure so self-assured

Or anything less than the flawed lines of our lifelines, that will only ever blur.

Today the boat is in still waters and now the stars have finally died

The final flares of celestial life have left empty our pitch black skies

We are those sailors in a rotting ship that will slowly sadly sink

And now we wake from a sea of sleep beneath sheets of rising waters, and even the sirens refuse to sing.