castaways

just as surely as the tongue
seeks out the aching tooth
i walk this land of fire and ice
still searching for the truth

some wiser, better part of us
must have suspected all along
that nothing good could ever come
from something so very wrong

as we sailed a sea of madness
on a flimsy raft of lies,
did this wiser, better part of us
keep us blind to stormy skies?

and as our doom unfolded
kept us oblivious to the fact
that in the story we'd created
this was the final act

dashed upon the rocks
and finally hurled into the sea
torn apart forever
this is how it had to be

to live fully in the present
and leave the past behind
we had to kill the dream
of a life we'd never find

..::cdp2007::..