obsidian

I see oceans in her eyes
They seem to rise and fall
The stormy blue of silence warns the other travelers off

But I will sail these waters
With the delicate whispers that I’ve told her
And I shall linger in this sea for just a moment longer

I don’t know where the sun will rise
I left my body in the moonlight
I braved her dampened twilight until I found her secrets

I awoke in the morning
Only to find myself washed ashore
Raging seas had stole from me the treasure I implored

I ran her endless beaches
Without a face or a way of sailing home
All my prior travels had never left me so alone

Her worn-torn eyes stole from me
Reason that justified my means
The sweat and hope and memory of her delicate seas

All the cherished years of innocence
Drowned by my blatant ignorance
I lunge myself into her crests that always seem to fall…right when I dive

And so I built a vessel
From all the words I believed were true
I left for home on a Sunday dawn, chasing ethereal blue

I painted my boat with memory
With pain and other colors I had found
On my sail I drew a flame that her sea could never douse…and I sailed on

I stood tall as a Titan
I wiped the blood from my shirt
High on my vessel
I whispered love like a curse
…and I stayed strong like obsidian

But I lost all of my reasons
Like steam to the sky
Past all these islands
And the moon’s pale blue eyes
…but I stayed strong like obsidian

I will linger on…like obsidian