Safe To Shore

-Safe To Shore-
by
Keaton Foster



Safe to shore
Forever more
Out here
Upon a distant sea
Miles and miles
Of endless dreams
Flowing in every direction
Currents yet detected
Pushing and forcing
Shoving my perceptions
Offering up interference
Clarity is an illusion
Of this undefined mind
This small boat
Does indeed leak
Water seeps
Cracked
From stem to stern
Age and pounding waves
Have taken their toll
Someday real soon
This small boat could
Without question sink
All the passengers
Will die terrible deaths
All those once living
Will be rendered stones
To the deepest depths
With the entire ocean
Resting up their chest
They must have done
One well of a thing
To be out here with me
Metaphysically
They seem not to exist
Every damn one of them
Is completely made up
Making things up
People
And experiences
Is all that I do
Safe to shore
Forever more
Out here
Upon a distant sea
Everything do I see
I know when
A storm is brewing
A can tell when it will be
Just another impossible evening
I can read messages
In both the clouds
And the waves
I wonder, am I wise
If being observant
Classifies me as wise
Then I am a wise as any
Mountain standing upon
Unshakable ground
Safe to shore
I must get where
I’m destined to be
If lightening the load
If plugging these holes
If sealing these cracks
If emptying this water
Is what I must do
Then without question
I will do it
I am quite determined
To again feel Tera-firma
Reality is my destination
Eventually is the wind
Upon my sail it pushes
I know that I will make it
Because I know of nothing else
Belief, a catalyst to surviving
The truest God of chance
Brought down from the clouds
Upon my shoulder he sits
Whispering into my ear
Telling me what’s clear
Safe to shore
For as far
As can be seen
There is water
Deep and blue
Endless and true
Someday soon
I know
I am sure
That there will be something
Unlike what it is
I have come believe…


Safe To Shore
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013