Sea Witch

I don't know how to write this down
A sinking sense of sadness, I think I'm drowning in it.
But I dived in, didn't I? Didn't you tell me I could swim?
It coiling and bubbling around me. Didn't you say you would save me?

There's a sort of heaviness settled in my bones.
It's dragging me down into the inevitable darkness.
They tell me there are wonders unseen here. How foolish.
Of course they are unseen, the blind don't see anything at all.

I wanted to remember how to float.
To remember the fresh air, the sweet sting of sunlight.
The feel of grass beneath my feet, making my skin itch.
The burn of fire and the smell of smoke swirling among stars.

Instead I'm sinking into sand that has lain beneath waves
Ages pass here without a thought, kings and companies collapse.
There is no hope, or love, or dreams. Not even the steady passing of the waves.
Just words, etched in the floor of the world, by a sea-witch who has forgotten who she was.