Adrift

I flounder alone in the sea of dismay floating on swells that lift my being but not my soul though walls of water that have no doors my ship of dreams slowly sinks under the blanket of evening I sleep yet am awake fingers of a vile wind tear its silken sails and send ribbons across a dark sea like frenzied seagulls through the long night away from the nightmare I float into a golden ocean where red hibiscus fall from azure skies and gentle hands of Posiden pull me onto white sands where Apollo shines eternally in this forgotten jewel of the Pacific