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When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue
Elijah Hendricks

I search for solace, all alighted
So consumed and unrequited
For the sea to turn tides in my arms,
erode my heart I meant no harm

The wounds have opened up again
Your salty skin poured over them
While I tremble as I pine for you
For Death to dance with the Ocean Blue

But I know as I lay down alone
Your heart is taken, I am prone
The tears roll salty, damp, unfair
I let them linger, to feel you there

I’m lost at sea, my darling dear 
The depths of you my joy and fear
Then as away I start to drift
The Fates so cruel allow a gift

You stumble in, pass through my door
no likes of which I’ve seen before
your onyx hair a blush disguise
to mask the sea storm in your eyes

Passion shocks the air around us 
your stride wide, my form tremulous
towards my bed you make your way
So, this must be my dying day...

Your head leans down to touch my own
conspiring thoughts, all sense now thrown
Inhibitions dropped and longing grew
As Death danced with the Ocean Blue

Your lips meet mine in crashing waves
which echo cries throughout the cave
that I have lived in all this time 
Where I had hid till you were mine

And then the spots of light appear
My vision breaks and balance veers
You’ve turned to mist and slowly faded
Your lingering kiss has left me jaded

I stumble then along the line
For sleep has wronged me to feel right
I was the boy who fooled his pain
with visions of the falsely gained

The Prince of Ghosts, I am the same
And yet I’m haunted by your name
Left but with this, a dream of you
Where Death danced with the ocean blue