Lyric

Basalt hush fell; her tideglass splintered

A kelp-thread arc steadied her wavering stance

Brineglow pooled in her saltworn palms

Its weight unmoored the vow she kept

If moonwake swells unspooled her compass wide

Downpull cords laced through her drifting gaze

She drew the iron tang of unspoken retreat

Letting its chill ballast the tide within

With every heave, the isobar shifted between us

Then littoral script rewrote her course in dusk-ink

Undertow drew our horizon

Loving is trial; it merits our strain

It blooms where riptides braid with hush

And charts our course through fractured seas

Undertow drew our horizon

We sailed as fragile trust held our way

As coral hours bent beneath her doubt

Foamline threads rewove the edge of dawn

A lantern-reef kindled inside her ribs

Its thrum endured beyond the gale

At slackwater, our margins breathed apart

Afterflow mapped her line in silted glyphs

Undertow drew our horizon

Loving is trial; it merits our strain

It blooms where riptides braid with hush

And charts our course through fractured seas

Undertow drew our horizon

We sailed as fragile trust held our way

Silence may deepen the swell

Or carve a hollow the sternum-vault must cross

Undertow drew our horizon

Loving is trial; it merits our strain

It blooms where riptides braid with hush

And charts our course through fractured seas

Undertow drew our horizon

We sailed as fragile trust held our way

Undertow drew our horizon

Its pull inscribed a tide that stays in you