Inspired by myths (and modern retellings), walks to the beach, and rhyme scheme experimentation.
There once was a man
Almost sunken in the sea
To stalk the vast blue tide
And be as near to love
As he could be.
Once there was this man
The sea halted her drowning
Tucked away her salt blades
Awaited his dive, and dreamed
Of the sea king’s crowning.
But what he always saw was
Never the pale assail of foam
Never the heaving breathing wave
He loved what he never gave
He loved only himself.
And the sea queen soon saw
What the man she worshipped became:
Slowly hollowed like driftwood
Blind as the sun
A longing false gaze
Once, this corpse of a man
Betrayed the lovely shore.
But the ocean is still merciful.
I let him lie
With the seabed, forevermore.
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