The Drowned One

As you drift off in the current

On the river of memory

Running along the embankment

I cry to you come back to me

But slowly I move away

As you run your reckless course

Piece by piece you can reclaim

A little of the ground you've lost

Now and then you sink right in

The moving liquid floating free

Brushing against brambles then

You hesitate and wait for me

Hiding both my face and figure

Dress pulled up over my head

From the fear I'll be disfigured

By the shame and the regret

You're a wreck, there's nought to save

A carcass in the flowing stream

But I remain your willing slave

And dive in head first after thee

As memory ends and the ocean

Of insensibility

Breaks our hearts and our emotions

Binds us in eternity