Shipping Periods

 

Deep red flows, it

Staggers and groans 

Like the hull of thy ship

 

When leaks stutter in

Crimson embarrassment compels 

Forgiveness for a shy mistake

 

Forgetting shipwrecks of

scattered souls is easier than

Taking about bloody jewels

 

And the ship sails on

Through sunset groans

Of misguided norms

 

The hull holds against

colliding roaring seas

Like marooned goods do

 

For earthen humanity.