Oh

What an

Unfortunately

Unsurprising turn of events

Oh

What a

Conundrum it presents

Swing with a white-knuckled grip and

Cling to the pieces of ship

Or start in the water and

End in the water?

The swells

After all

Intercept

Just the tip

Oh

What (on earth) can I do

I want help you (on sea)

I want to help you unsee

I want to help

But if I help you

I can't help me

And if I go unhelped

What help can I be?

But what if everything is okay?

What if everything is

Easy for once?

Maybe everything can be

Easy for once

Maybе everything can just

Be okay

Yay

Maybе that isn't a psychopomp

Maybe that's our lifer Hoopoe

Maybe that little Grim Reaper

Will grow up to be a lighthouse keeper

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

I hit the deck

A cannonball

From a diving board

On the crow's nest

Best leave the stunts

To the unprofessionals

Leave the stunts

To the unprofessionals

The boat's

A hoax

A fantasy of control

A joke

See it for what it is

Now that it's broke

Now we avail ourselves of its

Splinters and rope

To impale ourselves

And hang ourselves

Hope is what kept us from

Learning to float

Float

Float

Float

Float

Float

Float

But go ahead

Offer me another free cruise on a shipwreck

How could I refuse?

Why can't I refuse?

While there is life, there is hope—so

Why, for the life of me, can't I just float?

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

Hope

As if the water I fear

Is not the water I bathe in