My lesson learned is all too late,

as I sink beneath the waves of fate.

I cringe to hear my father’s cry,

his muddled voice- I wherein the water lie.

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These desires I find within my chest:

more than further breath to be restored-

but that my father'd be at rest,

and that I had not ignored

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His desperate plea on furrowed brow

I could have listened, I could have heard,

but all of that is too late now-

although with wings, I'm not a bird.

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My gallant laughs throughout the sky,

oh how fast did I forget-

the love within his paternal sighs,

now, no way for me to repay the debt.

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As the salt cleanses the last of my breath,

mine body must embrace its death-

all thoughts are closer at this depth,

despite that cragged rift above.

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I'm harrowed up by the heedless plight,

my foolish mind, so lost in flight-

as my body clenches in one last spite

It knows, agony can't redeem.

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No yearn for caution could tame the sea,

nor regret for lack thereof to say-

my final clarity will forever be,

lost within these murky waves.