These are the banes of my twofold lives:
Bound by wave and pained by air,
plaintive glances and dances on knives,
pleasing, yet third to the pair.
I am the Ocean’s defector, forsaker of fam’ly, forsaken by deathless love,
I am God’s stepchild, Land’s foundling, who found only dream and desire in the drouth above.
Foam on the water – a feath’ry farewell.
Hush – dawn is breaking. Ding-dong, bell.
(Lyrics: Eva Van Daele-Hunt, based on “Full Fathoms Five”, Music: Matthew Harris)