West Coast

Often times traveling to the west coast, I hear the oceans calling

The mermaid dwelling in every woman I’m sure asking her to leave the land

Of happiness and pain, there she goes with her legs crawling

As she heads out to sea where she can no longer beach-stand

If He called for me to leave the Arizona deserts to join the animals of the sea

If my happiness can no longer grow next to dry mornings

If lament has become the normal instead of this whole idea of free

If I knew the truth, I would run into the ocean without any warning

The ocean is huge and dominates over the soul living in cities

If I could escape to Atlantis, I would let this human life go

Alongside the orcas diving beneath the whale sharks and manatees

I’d let my inner creatures out of my chest because there’s no one else to show

Hurricanes lay out a path for us to choose the life away from society

Why drive through streets when I could ride the waves

There’s no other candle to take with the remaining innocence in me

There’s only a small part of me that there is left to save

I don’t want to be on land anymore, I want to be out there

There has to be more than everything I thought exists

Surely, there’s a God in the waters waiting to take care

Of the pain inside my bones while there’s mercury forming inside like cysts

Let’s get out of this place and go far away

Let’s join the mammals living in the freedom of earth

Surely there’s enough for all three of me’s to stay

So that I won’t have to know this kind of land hurt

Love Always,

Chayle