unfathomable sea, could you please pull us together
would you kindly direct your currents and tides and draw each of us to each others sides
haven’t you heard of forever
our love is transient at best
because it’s on the precarious cliffs of pride and fear
that we attempt to build our nests
ineffable unity, you’re a foreign concept to the land-locked state of empire
and unrecognisable has become the sight
of the shorelines beckoning desire
we don’t know how to swim
we’ve forgotten the stokes that could help keep us afloat
maybe it’s because we’re too busy holding on to all we own
cutting the circulation to our limbs

surrender to me
surrender to the sea
we’re all just leaking vessels tossed to and fro
on every wave as we’re cast as lots
so let our fingers intertwine as the water wraps your arms around mine
and we’ll be free

to fall down into the depths of grace
the deeper I go the greater the chasm of unknowing becomes,
but it’s a liberating darkness to my intellect that my soul it welcomes
as sunshine floods my heart and face

could you please pull us together
we can brave the storms and whether or not you hold my hand
I’ll still grasp you tightly in my prayers
lets put our faith in the ocean
lets put our hope in forever

and hold fast to the mast of our love
as it keeps aloft the blustering sails of our family
they’re tattered and torn, but sewn together ever so tightly
forget your past and set your eyes above

surrender to me
surrender not to the seeing and believing faithless mindset
that says if it’s not visible then it’s fake
or at least a well kept secret
well this ship’s moving forward and as surely as breath fills the canvas
and our family’s propelled onward
it’s the wind I cannot see
so watch all our seeking vessels tossed to and fro
on every wave as we’re cast as lots
and let our fingers intertwine as the water wraps your arms around mine
and we’ll be free

but you never told me about the feather
you collected it from me on the beach that blissful day
when I gave up my rights to fly away
even when it gets messy and I have to sleep out on the deck
so our brothers can have a place to say
your hands are as tough as leather
weathered by the sea
and they held my escape loosely yet carefully to your chest
tender and soft, but still held
but I couldn’t tear away if I tried
and by the time I realised that by choosing my friends lives over mine
the more alive the more I died
I’d still had my wings this entire time

so come lets build our nest in the cliffs
still unsafe, but oh so good
drawing us together like the many sticks and twine and pain and ecstasy and
hopefully the sea takes us all
though we are drops oh so small
but I know there’s rest on the oceans bed
so lets cling to this anchor of abandoned trust
and ride this one way elevator to the bottom
and I swear there’ll be a place to lay down you weary head

surrender to me
say your goodbyes to the surface
we won’t be coming up for air for a while
you see I’ve found a home in the sea
and sinking’s the only thing on my mind these days
I’ve even fashioned a millstone for a necklace
you see we’re all just leaking vessels tossed to and fro
on every wave as we’re cast as lots
so let our fingers intertwine as the water wraps your arms around mine
and we’ll be fine