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Edax rerum

 Lashed to the mast

 In bellicose fury

 Depths ascending to sky

 Wrath of the tempest

 Rain lacerates as nails

 Nigh drowned, salt blind

 Beckoning voices of the dead

 What punishment this?

 Passenger now into destiny

 What more can I withstand?

 Bowsprit pricks behemoth

 All hope lost

 Aeturnum vale

 If this be all

 Farewell forever

 Sunt lacrimae rerum

 Et mentem

 mortalia tangunt

 A blinding light

 Moments in retrospect

 My despair and lamentation

 What cruel providence?

 Rail splintering fragments

 Vessel founders under weight

 My defiant malediction

 Futility lost to roar

 Eternity now imminent

 I defy storm’s rebuke

 Coldly staring down the vortex

 Aeturnum vale

 If this be all

 Farewell forever