Gazing at the sun
From the ocean floor
Unable to breathe
Can’t be sure if I need to

Your wings, now rotten scabs
That you need to keep damp
I made a choice, now the tethers burn my skin
Why does my blood run cold?
Bereft of air we’re sinking further

Habituating, you say you feel it
Getting warmer…
But I can’t feel a thing
Here on the ocean floor

I can see its light (through the water)
I cannot feel the warmth (it radiates)
Sympathy is spent
I learnt to hear the cold (through your eyes)
A silence so intense
Stifles our words of denial and contempt

As we dive down through the sun
A thousand miles from shore
I cannot fucking breathe
Can’t be sure if I need to
Need to…

My neck jerks without warning we surface
No time to decompress
No time to decompress
But you stumble back towards the edge
You leap, I follow
Together we dive
down…

The ocean is your sky
Into which you soar
All you see in the surface is the sun’s and your
Reflection

Down here if I dream, I dream of sleep
And I can’t feel temperature anymore
And I think I could float suspended for days

days…

My neck jerks without warning we surface
No time to decompress
No time to decompress
But you stumble back towards the edge
You leap, I follow
Together we dive
down…

The ocean is your sky
Into which you soar
All you see in the surface is the sun’s and your reflection

(Won’t you) let me drown
Or let me breathe…

These tethers have become
Waterlogged and rusted to
Keep you smiling

Compassion beaten down
My hopeless anchor

Daedalus, for all he tried,
Forewarnings forever
Fell upon deaf ears

Icarus you are deceived
Your wings turn to roots
Clutch at the sand now and take shape
In the place that holds you down
Just a word of comfort
You will never drown
Icarus you are alone and always have been
So why am I here?

The ocean is your sky
Into which you soar
All you see is the surface