Literature
Adrift
I feel like a stranger inside my head
cold as stone and mechanically bred.
Millions of sparkling stars shine at night,
but by day each goes its separate way.
I followed them all when I was young,
only to return to where I’d begun.
We live happily forever
in my memories.
Our love grows ever stronger,
and never do you leave.
All that we shared
it stays with me,
happily, forever
in memories.
The best we were
will always be
happily, forever
within my dreams.
The garden was so pure and fresh;
by the pristine water I would rest my head.
Everything now seems sad and overgrown.
All that is still living
only aches within my bones.
Cascading prisms fall
in summer’s night skies.
I am an empty vessel
without any sails
a ship adrift
toward horizons unknown.
Everything that means anything
in time just drifts away.
Where are those sweet shadows
of yesterday?
We sail the tide,
ride the wave,
only to crash
upon a barren beach someday.
Footprints firmly imprinted in the sand
until
