Think away the surface
Is the creed
I’ve dubbed survival

Deeper down I dwell
A half-dead scavenger
At peace not knowing
Of the currents
That rage on high 

Think away the surface
With narratives
Forged in deceit

Lies
To disperse
The crude outer world
And stoke the flames
Of my inner hearth 

To have never loved
Is much preferred
To the scorching
Glimmer of indignity