The ocean's powerful dark waves
Spit into the billowing winds
Splash onto our already tearful faces
The ocean is big
We went for a dip
But found ourselves out of land's sight
I feel these pinches
and bites
of the world's stammering mouth
surrounding the waves and
preventing us from resurfacing
shaded by the sails of the sinking boats
the drowning economy
the flailing political states that forgot how to swim
the last breathes of human rights
and the Earth is frightened as a child
as the disease of humanity
quickly devours her
and we race her to our own deaths
As if it was a friendly game of Marco Polo
We can see blots of our trivial goals
as we come up for air
But oxygen doesn't visit us so frequently anymore
Maybe because we didn't invite him to our dinner party and took him for granted
My dreams of being part of things that happen on a big scale
Are realized
We are in the center of the whirlpool
and our toxic boats are pulling us down with them
No matter how small we are
what we have built was too big
To avoid
I tried to climb the trees
take my loved ones to the tops
but any attempts to salvage were useless
The trees were not on our side
even if we were on theirs
I would prefer to drown in water
Than this.
Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
The ocean's powerful dark waves
Spit into the billowing winds
Splash onto our already tearful faces
The ocean is big
We went for a dip
But found ourselves out of land's sight
I feel these pinches
and bites
of the world's stammering mouth
surrounding the waves and
preventing us from resurfacing
shaded by the sails of the sinking boats
the drowning economy
the flailing political states that forgot how to swim
the last breathes of human rights
and the Earth is frightened as a child
as the disease of humanity
quickly devours her
and we race her to our own deaths
As if it was a friendly game of Marco Polo
We can see blots of our trivial goals
as we come up for air
But oxygen doesn't visit us so frequently anymore
Maybe because we didn't invite him to our dinner party and took him for granted
My dreams of being part of things that happen on a big scale
Are realized
We are in the center of the whirlpool
and our toxic boats are pulling us down with them
No matter how small we are
what we have built was too big
To avoid
I tried to climb the trees
take my loved ones to the tops
but any attempts to salvage were useless
The trees were not on our side
even if we were on theirs
I would prefer to drown in water
Than this.