Old Ship

[Delta40]

I don't believe anyone
will sail in my ocean.
Not since it was filled with
your alkaline love.
Caustic kiss
Abrasive affection
You ate away my insides
then deserted me like a rat.
I was a translucent flow,
the salt of your life.
When did I become a vessel?

A lifetime of knotted kelp
tears away from your
barnacled captaincy
and floats to the surface.
The scum hides the truth
that I am nothing more than
a vacant, sunken wreck.

[everyadventure]

Very sobering, Delta.

I like "captaincy" especially.

[Jerrybaldy]

It is poetic Delta, but I am not sure about the self pity. Screw the captain and his captaincy you are Delta queen of your own ocean .