Drowning Victim

Drowning Victim

Clog me up with standard thoughts

Locked up and doing absolutely nothing

But growing like a poisoned barnacle

Eating into my hull

Impeding my progress and wrecking the sway

Out here on the waters seething decay

Like a banshee howling on the maritime winds

I see the form you were born in

Refuse my hand, throw back the life jacket

And answer my prayers with a life that has moved past it

Reaching the inside of a girl long sense turned

Into this vampire feasting on a lesson

Taken too long to learn

Inside my brain and eradicating my hope

That there was part of you still there

To console and make peace, but

All that surfaces is a monster set on greed

So I placate your wrath with an overpass

Of all this wasteland, part of justice into a corruption

Of where we end so that we each can begin

A new path, out of this hell

Away from the control of the liabilities swell

Liar on the power of the hours wasted

On your contortions, straight jacket you

Won’t keep you from drowning

Out there on the waters the lies weigh down

Ankles and miles of subsurface teeth

Starting to meet the flesh that has betrayed

Black days, coming back to feast

On the only body left who believes you