Abalone

Raining, draining To the sea Waiting, waning Come to me Captivate and permeate Your almond eyes encapsulate A life of otherworldly pleasures that intoxicate Nevermore my hope restored You're hiding on the ocean floor I'll wait a lifetime for the moment That you wash ashore again A call on the air Their hymns will draw you home The salt in your hair Reminds me of where you're from If you beckon me I will drink up all the sea And follow you into the deep My lungs are assailed And my skin becomes scale It has come to this My metamorphosis Breeching, screeching Hold fast Hovering with hands unclasped You're drifting just beyond my grasp The gasp that slips my lips A declaration of my trespass The song in your heart Is resonating In my counterpart And we're calibrating Your lullaby trills And I drift to sleep Wrapped in the chill Of your black rapture Years go by and I've discerned The more I know the less I've learned The masses clutching to the coil Are prisoners to flesh and soil My conscience clean, I'm not concerned If I have left this stone unturned The dark domain beneath my fins Is cerulean Bowing to the urge Of your otherworldly dirge Persuading me to tracts submerged If I had a voice I'd be muted by choice Deep in your abyss My metamorphosis The melody fades The pressure closing in To my dismay I greet it like kin Whoa The die are cast, I understand These hands will never touch dry land The embers burn inside my soul My throat is caught but heart is full Embraced we stay as time unwinds Our destinies are intertwined I'm weightless in the ebb and flow Suspended in the counterglow with you