Bitter Goodbye

I  am a survivor staring out at the wreckage after a storm

Watching the splinters of wood float by carried in the sea's arms

Nautically speaking I am a novice

And the crew I sailed with full of bad choices

But I'm the one that made it out alive

Despite the worst gales and tempests

That claimed the lives of all the men on board

I survived to tell the tale of this naval conquest

In the tempest tossed silence, I can still hear their screams

My heart will never be the same

For I lived and watched others die

And now I bid the sea a bitter goodbye

The Bilge Master