Awash

See the boat is sinking
Women and children first
Can’t you see we’re drowning
Cannot keep my head above
This frozen sea of bullshit
Even here above it
I’m drifting in a stained jug
Water ring upon your bath

Am I really happening
Or is this just a scream
Curdled words upon your brow
Furrowed as you sleep

Titanic lying next to me
Bismarck at my knees
Both look fresh off the dock
Next to this wreck
Scuttled now upon my back
Dive inside of me
Scuba my lungs
Where all you find
Is silt and treasured seas

© 2006, Mosquitobyte