Mariah - Star of the Sea

To see the unknown is to grasp the strange struggle with hallucinogenic disbelief of the deranged: To arrange and rearrange the disarray of a mind nonplussed by a puzzlement of imagery that binds one in loops of madness bound by the optic nerve’s impulses pulsating upon the high seas where red curved like the waves that swerved my dehydrated inebriation as they distorted my auricular balance into a drunk vermilion…. She’s appeared only at sea, always in striking shades of scarlet, as if to break the monotony of endless boring-blue ~ a starlet eclipsing my dilated pupils when she bled the moon, slicing off a smooth round piece, as I, in my cabin cocoon gaped thru the port hole at the bleeding sickle left suspended, animated, tween the midnight and dawn ~ swept into the black hole that fell into the dark’s abyss: an oceanic psychedelic trip of a brain reeling remiss… The glitter in the velvet dissolved into the ebon nothing The wind no more, as infinite jet swallowed frothing And there, not ten yards away, floated the cerise ball! I rubbed my dozing orbs, but still, I was in lunar’s thrall (3/15/2018 Repost for sailing contest)