Bitter Sea

Bitter sea,
please silence these emotions
and let me taste that salty sleep
drowning into ocean deep
My heavy heart will be the weight
That carries me to earthly fate

Down, far down, I'll sink unbound
Yet won't float back for one more sound
Instead, I'll hear a seahorse neigh
And hear the jokes the clown fish say
Laughing, while the water moves
down my throat, the salty blue
gently filling up my lungs
to wash the air right off my tongue

And then I'll know it's time to pray
a goodbye song to all this pain
Goodnight to stars that shine like day
with shimm'ring light upon the waves

Goodnight, dear sea, a deathly sigh
Goodnight, soft ocean, my heart now dies.