Wreckage

WRECKAGE

Wrecked again

all of us,

shipwrecked,

in your wake

Not so shipshape

Wrecked by

the tempest

in your wide, wide wake

We, the wakeful

flail

in these

following

confused

seas

They collapse on us

confound us

pull us under,

And,

under again

Going down for

the third,

the fourth,

the millionth

time

Random flotsam

Then, suddenly,

becalmed,

bejeweled, jetsam,

This stint of doldrums

serve small respite

yet

reignite

hope

hopeless hope

Stupid, undying, hope,

yearning

Die already, heinous, beguiling hope!

You gleamless mirage, mean longing,

You,

with your forward lean

killing us

over and over

like sport

And now

we’re

going

down

again

and

again

Random saviors

drown, too

We,

desperate,

grasp for them,

cleave to them,

push them down,

push all down,

and away,

They’re all gone

No safe harbor now

Shipwrecked, we are

No thing, not one thing, to salvage

Lost

"All is lost!"

Forevermore

How did we lose

what was

already gone?

You wreck me, baby, wreck us

wrecked our small swimmers

We are so wretched,

foundering,

no breath left

no longer treading

in your

turgid, swirling waters

We go down

for the last time

until

we float

lifeless,

circling in your

endless, eddying wake

Drifting hulks,

wracked skeletons

beached now

on this

our remote island

Lost forever

Our hollowed bones,

osseous tissue, blinding,

screaming white

under the blameless sky

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