Passages from a Sea Captain’s Log

It’s tempting to jump into the waves

For fast relief from looking for land.

Submerging in painted agony

Surrounding myself in sunken dreams

Of those who came and those who will come

Searching for the treasure that I lost.

I need no map to tell me I'm lost

At the mercy of deceptive waves.

On a quest like this, mirages come

Easily to show counterfeit land.

But Sirens will not silence my dreams, 

And I will push through the agony.

An albatross ends my agony

And leads me to the land I had lost.

An island I saw only in dreams. 

Letting my ship be pulled by the waves, 

I don't care if I crash into land.

Those looking for me will never come.

I dared Poseidon to let rain come

Down and quench my thirsty agony.

As happy as I am to find land, 

With no map or compass I am lost.

I still walk weakly from weeks on waves,

But it feels effortless like in dreams.

There are more nightmares here than dreams.

The sounds of creatures in the caves come

Between echoed crashes from the waves.

Sleepless nights are added agony

To the fear someone found what was lost.

That it has already left this land.

The deeper I dig into the land,

The more I wake up from foolish dreams.

The only thing here that was ever lost

Is a future beyond today. Come!

Bring forth this mariners agony.

Let my screams be muffled by the waves.

Bury my dreams in the land with me,

But don't cross the waves. Let me stay lost.

Leave this agony locked in my chest.