Sailing the seas of misfortune,
colliding with waves of intolerable forces,
A starboard blow strangles our forward momentum
and leaves me whirling in circles of bedlam

How I long to reach for a shoreline
Or see a foreign land in the distance
But we’re pummeled my tirades of the angriest waves
who forbid us from journeying on

I need to feel the earth to remind me I’m breathing
Dry my skin in the warmth of the sun-laden sand
Feel once again that I belong somewhere
But not here is the place for me now

To the ocean of sadness and confusion I am off
To do battle with giants of crystal clear blue
I can take so many punches before I give in
And decide I cannot carry on
How I yearn to have faith in something
To feel a sense of importance in being
I want so badly a cause that I would lay down my life for
And only then will I feel alive