Able Seamen

A journey uncertain
To God only knows
I look round the curtain
And I suppose
Out of my comfort zone
Into the great unknown
I’ll go

Ran out of ideas
And misplaced my pride
I pin back my ears
And race with the tide
Lamb to the slaughter at
Uncharted water
Black and blue

A life more ordinary
Missing the mirrors and smoke

Able seamen dampen demons
Here in the deep end
Drowning while I’m waving

I couldn’t hack it
As poet nor scribe
My Northern straitjacket
In which I can hide

Swimming against the stream of my own self-esteem

See darkened horizon
In this brave new world
While keeping my eyes on
All the bridges I burned

Out my frozen past
Into the looking glass
I’ll go

No life-belt
Chance of shipwreck
Choose now to sink or swim

Able seamen dampen demons
Here in the deep end
Drowning while I’m waving