A Silent Sea

Helpless to scream
profoundly exhausted;
I lie.
Dingy barely keeping water at bay
the sea perhaps not
restless
just endless.
Sunlight lost to cumulus
though heavy with rain
won't loosen her burden
to quench the parched lips
of a helpless man.
Day indiscernible from night,
sky devoid of definition
texture.
Sea and sky
separated by a thin meniscus of horizon,
both endlessly stoic and mute.
Not even the ocean breaks silence
with laps against the bow.


Alone.


A stubbled face man lies exhausted
drowned by sorrow of heartbeats lost.
A brain tormented by the haunting 
notion of grace once achieved
but ultimately lost.