Wash

I did not make it through the fatal wave
That pulled me underneath the vicious tides
And lagan there I lay on Neptune's nave
And here it is where all my treasure hides

I kept it scattered on the coral shelves
With morays standing guard before the gate
They sing their midnight dirges to themselves
To keep the hours merry as they wait

The purple crab sits neatly on my right
And counts the coins and bullion and gemstones
He's honest and he works within my sight
And gathers all the treasure in my bones

My sunken vessel crumbles in the sand
The shredded sails are scattered all around
And in my chair I sleep with cup in hand
That only holds the last drink that I downed

The little things that crawl cleaned up my bones
And made them opalescent in the moon
They gave my head a crown of cowrie cones
My feet resting in drachma and doubloon

The whales above sing long and steady psalms
And rays of sun shine down through the mottled glass
The seaweed has become my garden's palms
The coral shelf become my garden's grass

I lie within my tomb of sand and rot
Elysium beneath the crystal sky
All hunger that i knew is long forgot
All worries that I knew have passed me by

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