I found finally a
Stretch of beach
Matching the fractality
Of woes retched
Through the breach
Of digits futilely
Poised to precipitate
From my shaking heart
The barnacles I bore

Watching the waves
lavishly leap to
Lap them up, and
Return to me freshly
Washed pearls procured
From darkened caves

Tickling my toes
In their return journey
Helping me find
The smile I had
Unknowingly exiled

I have stared too long
Through the gazes of others
At my own demise
Spoke through a voice
Not of my own
That lessened a dawn
Unto dusk

I am a child of the stars
Dimorphous dust distilled
From the beginning of everything
What great entropy
Can diminish
any such
light?

You made a deal with the enemy
Based solely on unfounded faith
Sacrificing everything you said
You stood for
And hoped to
Impart to me

False faced figures
Touting hope and freedom while
Laying seeds of destruction
Twenty years in the making

You assured my honest children safety
As they now enter the void of the noose
That was your bare promise

Democracy was merely a dream
The Republic was merely a ruse

Maybe if you suckled oil
  from my bare breasts
Maybe if you mined gemstones
  from my southern lips
Maybe if my kiss to you
  was sweeter
You would have stayed

Your own ideals
And my people
Not withstanding

Now dark clouds once kept at bay
Roll in with the passage of your day
Seeing my sons sprout with hate
That wasn't meant for their hearts
Watching my daughters
Disappear
Once again

Long did I toil in this void vacant, eyes searching for you
Not Knowing what treasure stretched o'er the umbilical motion of time
Once greeted by fiery eyes of defiance to those wielding power
Igniting down deep, action in rebellion towards him named father

Fruitfully exiled to a home made all alone throughout
Lost amidst long rolling waves which scattered dreams from me: helpless
Accepting droll routines finally altered by your growing heartbeat
Finding the moon and sun shining down on the bosom of my quiet soul
Till that cold fateful day I had to release and watch you go

Travelling now loose from my long solace to wander at my own free will
Affording time to glimpse the silent mistress of the night seeing
Your reflection in her honest gaze keeping me apprised
Of your virtue, easing my chipped heart from forced division
Learning now to follow every whim as I make moments matter

I should have listened
To that shadowed prophet
Speaking the truest wisdom
Only found on the other side
And returned home
With all my men
Reuniting deserted families

Trading the blindness
I inflicted to the
Single eye of that
Son of the sea
For the blindness
Of Pride
That took both
Of mine

If I could but return
From these hallowed halls
I would lose it all
All the glory and
Immortality gained
For just a chance
To touch your skin
Breathe in the life of
My two sons
To sit blinded
To perpetuity
For a fullness
Of a life lived

That is the curse of the living
To never learn from the dead

So now, I wait
With ease on
These black banks
Refusing to cross with Charon
Those darkened sea foam waters
Until I am joined
By my two Sons
Serving time until
You both grow old

You may hate me
For as long as you live
But I will use all
Of eternity to show you
The love you deserved
In the time I made lost

So now, I wait

In the eyes of men
A lifetime
In the eyes of gods
An exhale