So helplessly, I yearn
From this drifting barge
To the dark water’s cull

In vain
I slave for the shores of home
As I’m violently
Jolted away, to sink

Where the open skies
Yield nothing at all
For miles and miles
Emblazed with light

Where the fires of hell
Engulf each day
Giving way
To a cosmic display, each dusk

As the past unfolds
So jubilant and fair
In the heart
Of a bittersweet silence