a nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide.. and swim..
SWIM. UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE LAND.
dip the toe in the ocean. oh how it hardens and it numbs.
the rest of me is a version of man, built to collapse into crumbs.
and if I hadn't come down to the coast to disappear
i may have died in a land-slide of the rocks, the hopes and fears.
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up to my knees now, do I wait? do I dive?
the sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps last time.
let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past.
she's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back.
all I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky.
SO SWIM. UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE LAND.
swim until you can't see land.
swim until you can't see land
SWIM. UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE LAND.
dip the toe in the ocean. oh how it hardens and it numbs.
the rest of me is a version of man, built to collapse into crumbs.
and if I hadn't come down to the coast to disappear
i may have died in a land-slide of the rocks, the hopes and fears.
up to my knees now, do I wait? do I dive?
the sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps last time.
let's call me a baptist, call this the drowning of the past.
she's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back.
all I am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky.
SO SWIM. UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE LAND.
swim until you can't see land.
swim until you can't see land