Submissions by BlondeBait

I am the captain of this ship

Not the flailing, flapping breeze
Not the instrument turned in degrees
Nor the endless lapping seas

I am the captain of this ship

Not the timing of the day
Not the shinning sky display
Nor the knowledge of the way

I am the captain of this ship

Not the wind caught in the sails
Not the rudder as it trails
Nor the tune of the fishermen’s tales

I am the captain of this ship

Not the boards that creak and rot
Nor the complicated knots
All these things...

Hear now the legend of Benzodiazepine;
Dark Knight, Gate Keeper of the Void, Fallen Champion of Aegri Somnia.
Here lies at his feet the armies of Non Compos Mentis
And their commander, Chimera; cut clean from her courser,
Crying cowardly into the lioness's mane.
"Fear!" she opines to her conqueror,

"Fear hath brought me down at your gate.
Destruction of the void I believed my fate;
My devine purpose to extirpate
The power to annihilate all I hold dear.
Clear to me now my hubris;
All logic I suppress,
My mind was too curious, ...

I am the mountain.
I hug it's girth.
Toes bury deep within the earth,
foundation strong and ancient.
Paint monolith in mind's eye
As purple stains my breath
Salient.
Eons' fire-forged formative fit
Now sits
And waits.
Once scaled by saints,
Unshakable faith; tethered
In my mind's meditation.
Weathered by storms; eroded, reformed,
Creation.
It's duty to observe
And to shelter; provide
Protection.
I am the mountain.
I know it's worth.