See to Sea (for Princeton).

I.

and he says

"you are beautiful

and talented

and amazing"

but my disagreement

is simple

these adjectives

do not describe me

in the slightest

and you laugh

and say

"it don't mean no thing"

and I agree

but that

just

won't

do

II.

there's light skittering on the surface

and I don't know who I am

but I do know what I am

this flesh and blood

that I bleed

there is always someone out there

physical presence

do not be deceived

it is just a mirage

III.

the railing holds me back

but not from

the breadth of feeling

and the immensity

and the vastness

IV.

Looking over this sea of darkness,

I see now

that this is a conscious dream,

one in which I can only wake up from

by dying.