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And the cold inside his eyes did grow

Gathered breathe before he spoke

Long ago

I could have guided you

Before this beard grew gray

Upon that last ghastly day

Upon this latitude

The event which left me broken

Gaze upon this ocean

As waves crash into these cliffs

I am composed

with this death of grandeur

And the cold voice

Inside these winds

Shriek to summon

The girth of this vortex

Bottomless the abyss

Behold the maelstrom

It was here amongst my kin

We began our descent

Into liquid ebony

Encircled in chaos

Above us and below

In this deluge

Clinched within its jaws

I would witness decimation

Of the flesh and of the soul

In recollection of this cataclysm

I now tremble within

As I stared into its eye

Cast myself into its walls

Clinging as I watched the mast

And sails enveloped

As the rays of the moon

Illuminate into the depths

And they perished

A cry to heaven

Sent from its core

A pathway between

Time and eternity.