Lifeboat

The tide is pushing hard I fight back as best as my aching body allows But the waves continue to crash Swirl and smash around my head The water wastes my senses I am disorientated, delusional, disintegrating Drowning. Gravity has lost all reason There is no up, no down, no direction This is my existential epiphany; I just exist My body is ready to concede To be freed from the whims of the waves and the tide Do not help me. This will not subside. I am done. And when I've lost all sense, all sight of light And the blackness is creeping, closing in And when the tide reaches new found height And I'm losing, I'm lost, I cannot win Then, once again, my Salvation is here He firmly pulls me from the deadly waves I hold him fast, and he subsides my fear My lifeboat, rescuer, the one who saves He steers a true course, he makes a way A constant path through the blackest of sea And all of a sudden, night turns to day I see clearly the waters surrounding me They thrash and they thrive, they chop and they churn But I am above them, safe and secure With my lifeboat, my guide, I once again learn With him I am safe; my Saviour makes sure So I will hold on to the promises you made As long as life endures, I know my lifeboat saves