Lost At Sea

Another dawn out here

Or so I reckon it must be

A slightly paler shade of grey around

If not inside of me

I stand firm here now

At this ship's prow

But I'm a proud captain no more

I rule this crew with a heavy hand

But they are but ghosts

And I feel only the biting rain

On my face, at most

There are great powers here

But I can't wield them

I am no God, can't bend the elements to my will

Though I've prayed to the lords of wind and rain

All around me remains

Still

We are given this board game and a few of the pieces

But most are missing

Then the lady fortuna robs you of judgment and breath

As soon as you're kissing

With the scarcest of provisions

Upon the icy waves we're cast

So far from home

No birds shall land on these masts

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Carry me away to anywhere but here

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Life is a beautiful ship

But I am lost at sea

I left the homely fire to wrestle the sea

But if they reckon me dead, am I still me?

I cannot turn back, yet see no lands ahead

Bound to sleep on the ocean's bed

There is no straight road, no enchanted isles

The world is bent, and so am I

No one can bridge what time and oceans sever

Those realms are lost, should I sail forever

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Carry me away to anywhere but here

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Life is a beautiful ship

But I am lost at sea

Sometimes I believe

I hear a lonely piper playing

Somewhere, out there in the mist

But the notes melt away

Like snowflakes in my hand

There is no harbour

There is no fiddle band

Sometimes, I believe

I see faint lights twinkling

Somewhere, out there in the mist

But they are not lanterns

To help lonely sailors find

Their way, I know, they are but

Flickers in my mind

Maybe I am gone already

I feel I should go, I would go

Draped only with an almost faded glow

A cape sprayed with a few sands of glory

I could leave them, I would leave them

They are nothing, 'tis all folly

My spirit is ready to go into the soothing darkness

Touching the stars

Perchance to dream

With luck to escape into the night

But still this rope that binds me

To the living lands won't be untied

It is worn thin as a single strand of hair

Yet it holds like a wire of steel

Another dawn out here

Or so I reckon it must be

A slightly paler shade of grey around

If not inside of me

Visibility still naught

Surface is calm but mirrors nothing

New clouds keep coming in

Though my sails won't unfurl

If clouds indeed they be

Or smoke from the scorching of the world

Water's dark below me

Dark as my heart and as cold

Do not feel alive

Only feel I'm growing old

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Carry me away to anywhere but here

Drifting, ever drifting

The ever calmer waters terrifying me

Shifting, pray winds be shifting

Life is a beautiful, mystical, magical ship

But I am lost at sea

I left a homely fire, but forgot the road back

I laid roses on a grave, but forgot both name and tears

The anchor will reach no bottom

The wind won't fill the sails

All is now dark

All is now dark

All is now dark

I am lost at sea