Drowner of Worlds

Ravenous beasts
 Is it lonesome in your depths
 Apart from humanity's stench?
 Has the disease of our life reached your watery bed?
 As you cleanse our poison with every watery breath
 What is the point?
 Where is the joy?
 Suspended in dreams built on sand
 Still disenchanted, but out of respect
 I bow to you, king of the end
 And in mortal flesh and expiring lungs
 And a heart that still weeps blood
 I stand upon this rotting deck
 Alone, contemplating the company of your depths
 Ravenous beast
 Masterless one
 Why have you surfaced again?
 I'm awake in a cradle of wind and stars
 Exhausted and longing to drift away with you
 Freedom reeks in ivory jaws
 Repair the wounds time could not mend
 Passionless, burnt down to marrow and bone
 And specters of love to be missed
 Boundless exhaustion, ambition forgotten
 One single step from the Earth to transcend
 Out of this rotten cage, so the needs of my soul
 Might cease to exist
 Ravenous beast
 Ancient guard of the northern sea
 Drowner of worlds and granter of dreams
 I bow before your majesty and accept my fate
 For it remains as unchanging as your rule
 The stars and the sea and the rain are all gone
 The void reveals itself to me
 Am I in the belly of the beast or is the beast in me?
 The sleep I longed for takes me, and I dream
 One single step from the Earth to transcend
 Out of this rotten cage, so the needs of my soul
 Might cease to exist