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Navigating through Scylla and Charybdis

You might find these waters unforgiving.

Navigating through Scylla and Charybdis

You might find these waters a much welcome reprise.

I've tried to live by "in omnibus requiem quaesivi,

et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro."

It's the quixotic longing for these turbulent waters

that finds me where I am,

Contented irrevocably.

But forgive this fool hardy sailor

For his mad flirtation with hubris.

He can only damn well hope to meet his next dawn.

MEMENTO MORI!!!

The memory of our seafarer

will permeate the vastness below

like the shimmering reverberations

of strings pulled tight across the ocean floor

MEMENTO MORI!!!

"Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,

Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,

Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur."

Soon our sailor will find

whiskey won't help to tame

the convulsing waves.

The apportioners have

no hand in this

And the sea,

MEMENTO MORI!!!

"Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,

Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,

Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur."

Navigating through Scylla and Charybdis

You feel disdainfully at home

Navigating through Scylla and Charybdis

At peace with the gale,

At peace with yourself.