I am a ship
Stripped bare
Sails lost
No longer flailing there
The ocean beckons
And I cannot enter
Stranded
No port or anchor
To hold me anywhere

A song plays
I remember a sweet girl
Someone I loved
Someone who left

A bird sings
and I recall other things
Grandpa’s binoculars
The campground
All the sounds

Memories tare at me
Scare me
But there I be
Pirated painfully
Loving a past
That will not return to me

Perhaps I was mistaken
Shaken by my sorrow
Now I know
Pain is my anchor
Holding me still
Till the weight
Drowns me