One if by Sea

One if by Sea                             1/19/2017

30 seconds to wait

Without a minute to spare

Another day under the gun

Unrepentant and unaware.

Who has the courage

To shout it out loud

The truth of the times

Dangerous and dumb.

We could have had it all

But we let it all go

Downwardly mobile

Inside and out. 

Far easier it is to fall

Than it is to climb

And it is no easy thing

To pull out of a dive.

Spiraling down

Faster and faster

In an ever widening tragedy

The disaster of accidents

Unloved and unworthy

Unremembered and discarded

The filthy rag

Rotting in the trash. 

That is how I was

And that is how I am

The rejected fish

Swimming sideways

In a sewer.

I survive

For a reason

I do not know

Hidden at a crossroads

Head down

In sadness.

It hurts to ask

And it hurts to try

Because it always ends the same

Almost there

Or not at all.

The water flows

Under the bridge

And under the ground

Endlessly cycling

Up and and down.

We are all waiting for something

And sometimes we have doubts

Self-censoring ourselves

Into oblivion. 

Rising up

In invisible smoke rings

The silent suffering

Of the many

And the dead. 

Burn another off

And wait if you can

Because patience is everything

And desperation

Fatal.

Help us all

To know

When, where and how

Faithful all the way

No matter what.

Godspeed

We pray

Today and forever

Courageous

And defiant.