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I wonder, I wonder

What lies asunder

in the deep mirror waters before me.

I wonder, I wonder,

Below grey skies of rain and thunder

If I should pity frailty.

I wonder, I wonder.

Always, on this isle of cinder,

My mind, a ravenous aerie.

Come and take me ocean;

Wash away my still body.

Let it be an hideous beacon

To all travelling boatmen

Of the dreariness of vanity.

Come and rip me ocean

Tear these limbs apart

Let me be a crumbling beacon

To all wandering boatment

Of a man who forgot his heart.

I wonder, I wonder,

with eyes toward the skies domed border,

in the deep waters engulfing me.

Now I am a capsule of amber

An anchor of anger

On the waves of remembrance.

Now a fallen sailor,

A half spoken rumour,

A man who sought deliverance.

I am ash.

No words spoken over bitter waves

Nothing to bleed for

Nothing to look for

Lost years, a battallion of hate

Such a fool, an instrument of fate.