The Descent
You told me I would be safe
You told me that you could free me
Of pain
Of the carnage left in each human’s footprints
You told me I was bigger than the time I’ve spent on this earth
That it’s just too small for me
You summoned this gentle deceit
Seemingly pure and white
But still I found myself at the bottom of the sea
To forget your blistering heat
You asked me what I would give for this
I told you everything
That’s what you took
Icarus would have warned me about you
About your pull
About how I could sink as quickly as I flew
About how I could be met both with ruthless incandescence
And icy water miles below
Yet still only see the beauty in your golden light
About how my lungs could fill with water
But I would only feel my heart
Saturated with windswept devotion
Full of ethereal love
About how I could spend an eternity buried at the bottom of the ocean
And be left with nothing but satisfaction
Nothing but the rapture of having once linked arms with the sun