Stranded in this vessel, far away from hope

Drifting amid a restless calm

Persistent ache of body's memory

Dull senses, phantom pain

Of struggles passed, of lonely deaths

Of painful rebirths, floating here abandoned

Await the promised storms

Drowning without warning

Mental tempest surge and swell

Sunburnt and exposed again

At the mercy of the flood

Smash me against eroded cliffs

Pulverised to beads of sand

Once more regain myself

Re-inhabiting the shell

Corpse dredged up from ocean floor

Rinsed and ready to repeat

Drowning without warning

Mental tempest surge and swell

Overcome the boundaries

Overwhelming all defence

Torrents of emotion swallow everything

Frozen histories liquefied by prismatic hourglass

Set adrift on inner oceans