Adrift
Oh this world, I just can’t figure out
Where I am standing among those I see around
I can’t find a place, no place seems steady enough
Why am I drifting in this broken icy sheet?
While I can see the land where others stand
I don’t know how I am going to reach so far
This can’t be it, this icy cold life
Nameless faces with aimless eyes
You got to just get lost for some time
Whenever this sinking feeling envelops the lost
I seem to be buoying in the ocean, with my head turned down
Gulping in salty water mixed with my own tears to add on
At the water’s edge u stand to see
A silent lady adrift at sea
Rising and sinking with the waves
Floating into sight, only to sink away in fright
To brave a leap or huddle up with hope
The choices is seen, to decide is to break
Bared to another, life not controlled by none
Cared for, yet stranded among sightless unknowns
Throw me a rope, row me a boat, and swim me a savior
I don’t see me standing up long in this freezing cold
A spark of fire might save my frozen heart,
Yet will burn away my makeshift raft
Drinking in the silent day, the beauty even cold inspires today
Bathe in mist, uplift from the raging rift
With howling winds to steer the frozen limbs
Hunched to the hissing, howling, wondrous winds
Eyes wide open, I see where I am, where I have come from
But far sighted I am not, I see nothing but a blur ahead
Crazy as this may seem, I don’t fancy a reprieve tonight
I know I fell over the fences, down the broken ice
I am just glad to have the last few minutes to savor the light
Where i might land is a quick dream, making it true is beyond me
Within all this chaos i get my silence, a thought to form in mind
To float or swim, to the shore i move. Final step be mine to take.
Copyright © Cleo Wordworth | Year Posted 2017
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