The ABC's of Being Lost at Sea

 Abroad in a foreign sea

A wave crashes over me

Breathing water instead of air

Blinded by my billowing hair

Clawing faithfully for the sky

Coughing loudly in the dry

Drifting away from a crowded boat

Damned to a fate of sink or float 

Every blessed breath in a burning throat

Eternity to be spent in the sea remote

Far away from my mother’s eye

Fighting the childish urge to cry

God knows my tears will join the sea

Gathering in salty comradery

Having not been the Ocean’s first

Her waves will welcome me fully immersed

Into the deep where my toes can’t touch

Idle limbs will lead to such

Just my luck to fall overboard

Jarring joke to be endured

Keep my chin up to work it out

Kick the water, try not to shout

Looking to the east then to the west

Lingering in the water, no time to rest

Must pray for mercy and make my way

Maybe my heavy legs will still obey

Not a sound but the Ocean’s sigh

Nothing more than water and sky

Once chosen path, a compass lack

Only forward, no turning back

Paddle straight and paddle hard

Possible escape from the sea unscarred

Quaking breaths keep uneven beat

Quenching air tastes bittersweet

Reality chills me to the bone

Racing heart in the sea alone

Some savior might not come my way

Salty seas kill within the day

Treading water until they fail

Two legs form into a tail

Under the water, the sirens call

Unknown depths for me to fall

Venture deeper into the new

Vanish slowly from the girl I once knew

Wonder what will become of me

Watery life is a mystery

X marks the spot where I fell in 

X’actly who I had once been

Yellow light filters through

Yawning mouth of the Ocean’s blue

Zenith passed, my life underway

Zealous hope, show me the way