Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Adrift

Adrift

by Steve Loggins
1/12/10

Stranded in an endless sea of doubt
No sign of safety or rescue
No hope

The waters stretch to claim me
for their own
drowning


I make my struggle against
the overwhelming
flood


Without any aid of flotsam
To hold me up
despair


Alone I tread, adrift in woe
The sound of water
engulfing


No ship in sight, no rescuers
No birds so far from
land


The easy thing will be to die
To stop the struggle
sink


Beneath the waves, silence comes
The peace of death’s
embrace


Say “no!” to coward’s easy way,
swim on ‘til something
changes


There is always hope
Faith and
Love


To sustain us, though we perish
A far white shore rimmed in
gold

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