How I Waited All These Years
sometimes
sometimes, yes
I am too broken
for the truth
sometimes, yes
I am too broken
for the truth
for the truth
is
sometimes, yes
sometimes
I don't know what else to do
other than
hold on
is
sometimes, yes
sometimes
I don't know what else to do
other than
hold on
to all of the pieces
I once mistook for whole
I once mistook for whole
I take my time
getting to the shore
getting to the shore
cause sometimes
sometimes
I really don't have a leg to stand on
sometimes
I really don't have a leg to stand on
Shipwreck, the Rescue -- J. M. W Turner
A man adrift on a slim spar
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Tented waves rearing lashing dark points
The near whine of froth in circles,
God is cold.
The incessant raise and swing of the sea
And growl after growl of crest
The sinkings, green, seething, endless
The upheaval half-completed.
God is cold.
The seas are in the hollow of The Hand;
Oceans may be turned to a spray
Raining down through the stars
Because of a gesture of pity toward a babe.
Oceans may become grey ashes,
Die with a long moan and a roar
Amid the tumult of the fishes
And the cries of the ships,
Because The Hand beckons the mice.
A horizon smaller than a doomed assassin’s cap,
Inky, surging tumults
A reeling, drunken sky and no sky
A pale hand sliding from a polished spar.
God is cold.
The puff of a coat imprisoning air:
A face kissing the water-death
A weary slow sway of a lost hand
And the sea, the moving sea, the sea.
God is cold.
--Stephen Crane