The Catch on Casted Line
I have admired you from nearby, always just a glance away And yet it seemed there was an ocean between us, a steep wave Could make you lose sight of me, and I you And you would be swept carefully away by new horizons, by old things brought anew And the things I thought I once new about your soul Were just pieces of respect, now joined with lack thereof, all things made whole An image of you that I had not wished to see A resentment, a pain that I thought I had cast away into the arms of the sea So long ago, I remembered a time when I would have preferred to drown To slip beneath the waves and listen to the sound Of darkness closing in on me As steady as the slowing of a heartbeat That once gave me life, gave me breath Could just as well be the very thing to give me death And now I know why they say it is a curse to feel everything so deeply For my heart is as vast as the ocean itself, and I fear it’s just as empty And I can sail my ...