I Drown Nightly - Vitriol

Rolling waves encircle, pulsing in snarling crests

The recoiling lips of oceanic wolves

They bare their teeth, and I can’t close my eyes tightly enough

They’re redefining fear

A predatory darkness salts adolescent wounds

A writhing, swirling murk

A truer death has found me

It pierces doubt and body totally;

I am a lamb of this sea

In peakless bounds they find the feet of the holy

Heaven’s veil torn upon teeth

The titans are worldless

They’re furious, and it’s humbling

I sit in the eye of crushing black

I guard my ears —

I’ve always done that, even as a child

Their arms find their way beneath my own, and they fold me into reaches I know

nothing of:

Mysteries unveiled through unparalleled aggression

The things I see the deaf can hear —

If you only knew

At the heart of it all, I do want this

It’s a torture not known to most

I never sleep.

I drown nightly