Mutiny (Pirated)

So long adrift, amiss, lost at sea

Eons pass sans any sight of shore

It’s been a millennium, an eternity

Forty moons, yet it feels like more

Bearing the brutal indifference from the sun

Always struggling to keep the sharks at bay

Countless battles fought, though few are won

Left bereft, afloat; unable to find the way.

Ocean and horizon as far as the eye can see

Amidst this abyss of tsunamic emptiness

As merciless thirst taunts relentlessly

Whilst drowning in a sea of hopelessness.

An outlook so grim makes it more difficult to swim

And treading water in perpetuity can be crippling

The reality; odds of surviving grow increasingly slim

Still I resist surrender so long as the waves are rippling