Ankle Deep

I have been here waiting for you ankle deep in the salty sea surrendering away my pride as I gaze into the spent promises that lap at my ankles. waves created from the shipwrecked dreams of what we wished we would be. life's luxuries picked at by ever present seagulls; the true connoisseurs of what sinks or swims the tides and currents of our bodies, once anchored in the sound and mind for the sailor and his mermaid song, now a voiceless sextet held by a blind man who can see it all. a multitude of minnows searching for a suitable wardrobe, waterproof against the hooks and sinkers of love and the net of deception, spawned from within the kingdom of the deep it all seems to me I swam upstream in vain to you to be with…you to be yours. naked truths have barbs that are hard to swallow you have changed my life forever you are never to return are you I have been here waiting for you IRISH