Air of my lungs
You were supposed to
Keep me and this new life
Blushing and pink
Teach me instead
You weren’t opposed to
Fables and scorpions
Alive and well
Air of my lungs
You were supposed to
Keep me and this new life
Blushing and pink
Teach me instead
You weren’t opposed to
Fables and scorpions
Alive and well
The water most blue
And the wake so gentleAs the fabled ghost, now untied, makes its way away, away
The confused and seasick struggles to fix a gaze
With a hope that makes legends prove true
We should lean back
And feel the thrill escape one another
In a scream
In a giggle
As we hide, half buried in the amber-copper canvas
And wait
And watch
For the inexplicable supernatural
Shouldn’t we