Clear Skies and Calm Waters
One day I found myself venturing out to sea
No assistance to be found but the old boat my parents gave me
It is old and broken and fragile as a leaf
Yet it is all I have to make the journey

Stepping into the tide I cannot turn back
My heart trembles for the courage I lack
I must make this journey, we all must in time
So why is it so hard to step into the that brine?
I set up my sails and launch from the sandy shore,
Screaming as my mother brings me into the world.
The world is flooded, so we travel on floating vessels
Yet mine keeps taking on water

I fear I may drown and my tale will be told
As the girl that’s boat was too weak and too old
I take my medicine so that the water doesn’t come in
But my boots are still wet
And my skin pricks at the cold of it

Sometimes I see another boat passing mine
Proud and in a straight pretty line
Towards shores I will never reach
I drop out of school because I am too broken to finish it
I try to turn the steering wheel and nothing happens
It appears I am but a passenger in this boat I didn’t ask for.
Nightly I pray for clear skies and calm waters
so I may find a destination that isn’t back where I started

Clear Skies and calm waters
I fear for the fate of if I have sons or daughters
the more I try to summon calm, the more rough the waves become.
Lightning cracks in the sky
Illuminating my lack of control.
I lie defeated on wooden deck and wait for the water to take me
But it doesn’t

The sea is massive, strange and sometimes unkind
But it didn’t take me even with my broken mind
It urges me to live
I curse it and kick the seafoam with hate in my heart
Why keep me on a boat that doesn’t work?
I stare at the kind doctor and tell them I can’t do this anymore.
But the boat keeps drifting on.

(OPTIONAL)
Years pass, skin browns and weathers
Patches are added to my boat, ramshackled out of wood and leather.
I find out my mind is not my enemy.
And I look out at the sky
There’s a few clouds
And I look to the sea
The water is smooth today
And I feel grateful
even though I know another storm is coming.