Messes Of Men by MewithoutYou

I do not exist, but faithfully insist
Sailing in our separate ships
and from (1)________ (2)________ caravelle
Tiring and (3)____________ there's unnecessary dying
like the horseshoe crab in its proper (4)______________ sheds its shell
Such distance from our friends
like a scratch across a lens,
made (5)____________________ (6)________ wrong from (7)________________ we stood
and our paper blew away before we'd left the bay,
so half-blind we wrote these (8)__________ on sheets of salty wood

Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing (9)____________ at the jokes told by their daughters
I'd set my (10)____________ for land,
but you well understand
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters
The propeller's spinning (11)____________ held (12)________________________ (13)________ the waves
as there's mistakes I've made no (14)____________ could outrun
The cloth blowing on the mast like to say I've got no past
but I'm nonetheless the (15)__________________ and secretary's son
with tarnish on my brass and mildew on my glass,
I'd never want someone so crass as to (16)________ someone like me
but a few leagues off the shore, I bit a flashing lure
and I assure you, it was not (17)________ I expected it to be!
I (18)__________ taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel,
floating forgetfully along, with no need to be strong
We (19)________ our confessions (20)________ and when we pray we keep it short

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not (21)________ coming back

Oh, my God!

I do not (22)__________ we faithfully insist
while (23)________________ sink the heavy (24)________ of everything we knew
If ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I (25)__________ never show you anything as beautiful as You

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