**** mine eyes, For I wrap them in the sun of days made shade by these specter hands, That's right you're a nightly spectacle set upon a dial counting days with your fingertips sewing these lips with a strand of the melancholy black band string, Ring the twelfth bell toll to tell tales of the twilight nights not kept by dreams, it seems my seams shall not snap against these silent sounds of reasoning, For I am bathing in the bath of my backwards ways, Oh emotions ocean, will your motion swallow me? Can I be like your sons, walking on water with wooden ships, No, For by my burning rights, My heart is embers, I remember that my covenant would sink me, So think of me, I'm at the bottom of the sea, You'll find me in the grave of lesser explorations, Where all the sailors sleep, Reaping seeds of defeat, Sewn into water, Water without end, Lo, Waves wash over my body Crashing against your feet The sea has taken me, Whole