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False Prophet

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Published: Apr 22, 2016

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Literature Text

Are we just pale sailors
On a sea of silence
Drifting towards sunrise
Only never to arrive?

Can we chart a course
For something unseen
Is it only a dream
A quest without hope?

I carry my heart in hand
And pray that I'll live
Long enough to find
What it is we've lost

With the abyss below
And the stars so far
What's light worth
When you're blind?

Time slips through me
I only filter out
The things that matter
Or that have mass enough

I poke black holes
In the hull of my boat
So I'll float on down
The time-stream's flow

It's an uphill battle
Fighting for the shore
Wonder if I died
Might it mean more?

Can't remember why
I thought this would work
Guess I'll keep going
As the current isn't slowing

Wish I had some ghosts
Instead of all these friends
Wish my fleeting thoughts
Were a fleet of rowboats

Then, all in a row
We'd go, one by one
Over the edge of earth
And find our sun

Can you take me home
To where I once belonged?
Where I grew up
To become someone strong

I may be a hero
But where's that got me?
Dead in the water
With a thousand lost souls

Hoping for a lost cause