Drifting

I feel myself drifting slowly away
Far from the safe shallows of sanity
Nocturnal agony poisons the day
Dawning my death knell in a minor key

I wish I knew and I wish I could say
What catastrophe is coming for me
But I feel it advancing just the same

I hear its heavy footfalls in the night
The chilling wind is whispering my name
The squatting clouds have blotted out the light
The dark descends to cover me with shame

The waters all around me dank and deep
Are rising now and rocking me to sleep
With lullabies of bitterness and blame

What catastrophe is coming for me
I wish I knew and I wish I could say
Far from the safe shallows of sanity
I feel myself drifting slowly away

+Steven Curtis Lance



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