Sevengill (Notorynchus Cepedianus)

Down here I wait with all my benthic friends

Underneath the gate listening to lives end

Those with seven gills will investigate each thunderous crash and corresponding shape

In great detail, I described you to them

In case the bridge is how you choose to end

I'd like to have some last words with you before you end up on the Farallone's rocky shores

Where the real beasts await to have their way

With all the failures washed out from the bay

A hundred years have past since just last autumn

Please come to the bay, see who now lives on the bottom

I'd like to have some last words before I forget how to walk upon these muddy shores and entirely cease to breathe like a man

Seeing things only with the tips of my hands

My heart is crushed by the jaws of regret

Upon knowing where you now make your bed

The depths at which I've chained to you

I pray those shackles eventually rust through

Held under by chiton like lies

Amongst the corpses

I'll never surface

Debris bouncing off my hide

Covered in detritus I've lost purpose

What comfort lies in years of hating me?

Haven't you in some way found a rare peace?

Please realize your very soul's at stake you're still a man and I was just a tool of fate

Your bite marks riddled my soul

It got damn cold with all those holes

So I left it on shore for all the gulls

Take it

There wasn't much left

Take it

But it's all yours

Take it