sole embrace
I don't need to see to believe
That rest could be a gentle sea
Bound to the mast in hurricane dreams
Corrupting the peace of my dormancy.
Sloshing through on aching soles
thrashing clawing to submerge my soul
in hope that I won’t wake up in solus
Without you here I just feel so soulless.
I just need your sole embrace
To move my mind to a dormant place
To ease my heart to a slower pace
Like when you and I had our souls embrace.
But you're still such a terrible liar
Threw lies that set my heart on fire
Without you here I just feel so wired
cause sleep doesn't help when your soul is tired.
So i don't need to see to believe
When every night I feel those seas
I see us swaying calm and free
And I drown in the places you took from me.
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Deeply personal grief over lost relationship; minimal abstraction
Multiple interweaving ideas: rest, drowning, lies, heartbreak, soul-loss
Overwhelmingly negative: soulless, drowning, wired, exhaustion, abandonment
Intense verbs: thrashing, clawing, set on fire, drown; urgent voice
28 lines; falls in 16-30 range
Rich metaphors: sea, drowning, mast, souls, fire; pervasive symbolism
Pure lyric first-person introspection; no narrative or dramatic shift
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