Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from (1)________ tiny caravelle
Tiring and trying there's unnecessary dying
like the horseshoe crab in its (2)____________ (3)______________ sheds its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a (4)______________ across a lens,
made (5)____________________ look wrong from anywhere we stood
and our paper blew away before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these (6)__________ on (7)____________ of salty wood

Caught me (8)____________ eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it (9)__________ a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning blades (10)________ acquaintance with the waves
as there's mistakes I've made no rowing could outrun
The cloth (11)______________ on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the librarian and secretary's son
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd (12)__________ want (13)______________ so (14)__________ as to (15)________ someone (16)________ me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not what I expected it to be!
I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as (17)______________ as a rod without a reel
To an (18)____________ ever-dropped, (19)______________ yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first (20)________ at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, with no need to be strong
We keep our confessions long and (21)________ we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of (22)________ and I'm not (23)________ coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not (24)__________ we faithfully insist
while watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew
If (25)________ you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could (26)__________ show you (27)________________ as beautiful as You

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