AdRiFt

Somewhere between here

and nowhere

Cut from the moor by chance

and circumstance

On roiling waves I am adrift

as the sea shifts

I’m tugged from the shore

and I implore

The moon for a direction

at its discretion

I swim amidst endless stars

and where they are

Burns pale and perfect light

so milky white

A beacon to guide my way

won’t drift astray

Take up both oaken oars

and row on for

A promising but distant land

and by my hand

I’ll part this murky water

I will not falter

I must traverse this ocean

with my devotion

Find where inside my chest

my heart can rest

And dock my weathered bones

in that new home