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Anchor

Cast your wishes to the wind

Launch your desires to the sea

Throw your emotions to the ocean

Set your most intimate aspects free

Most of all, leave your secrets safe from me

Baby, I'm an anchor

rusted steel exposed to the seaward breeze

aching to race from the sun to the darkest depths

pulling you under in my selfish plummet

there's no escaping the salty abyss I'm rushing towards

You see the bottom suits me, beautifully

perhaps for the bottom is nothing new to me

dwelling out of touch from the sun's rays

never yearning for the warmth of another to rouse me from the darkness

for perhaps the bottom was always meant to be home

rusted steel set perfectly in the moondust sand of an ocean's farthest depths

so cast your wishes to the wind, never tied to the chains linked to me

Baby, I'm an anchor

I was never meant to be

soaring in the winds, together with you set free...

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sean-c-johnson
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Oct 18, 2013
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