Born from the Sea

There is a monster in the sea. That is what the humans call it, anyway. Sailors who see a flash of scales, who see the currents of the water change abruptly, who see a long, dark shape underneath them and pray that it passes them by.

Everyone who spends time out on the deep sea feels its presence, sees its shadow, feels the fear of something so much more than they are living in the darkness beneath.

In truth, humans are wrong. There is no monster in the depths. It is something better and worse, and so much more. There is a Goddess who lives in the sea, large and dreadful and terrifyingly beautiful. Her body is long and grey, her skin is scaled and covered in the detritus of her world. Algae, seaweeds, even some small crustaceans, all make their home along her body. They pay homage to her power.

She is ancient. The Goddess was formed when the waters first started to create furrows in the Earth’s surface. Back then, acid fell from the sky, and the Goddess had to be tough to survive its fall. Her eyes are luminescent now, to see better in the dark depths, but in the beginning, they were fire, and her claws contained poison. Her breath was a plague to everything in her path.

The Goddess has changed over the years, as all things do. Even immortals. Her teeth are more deadly, her tail has grown enormous, and her claws are long enough to tear through a ship’s hull with barely a thought.

Since the water first started to fall, this has been her whole world and all that she has known. One day, she grows curious. The Goddess is old enough to remember that not everything used to be as it is now. She wonders about those beings above her, the humans who have crawled out from the depths of her world and slowly adapted to another one.

The Goddess senses a yearning in herself, which does not happen often, and she journeys through the waters until she reaches the edge of her domain. With barely a thought, the Goddess changes her shape, something that she has not done for a very long time. She could never forget how to shift and form into something new, though, and so she does.

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There is a monster that lives in the sea. That is what people call it when they catch a glimpse of its monstrous body and sharp claws and teeth. They pray that it shows mercy and passes them by. It is old and terrible.

In truth, it is not a monster at all, but a Goddess - ancient and wise and, yes, terrible and beautiful. She was there even before water started collecting on the surface of the Earth and gathering together to form the deep sea. She is made of the sea and from the stars, and one day, she decides to walk among the humans and see what has become of them.

What will she discover, this Goddess from the sea?

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Waiting

Waiting

Just feel like I’ve been waiting
A thousand hours
A thousand days

For something to change

I’m on the verge
Maybe I’ll win
Once in my life

Something might go right

Maybe, someday
Hard to hope, harder not to
Got to take the chance

Waiting

Wanting something I can’t get
Is it too much or not enough?
I don’t think I can tell anymore

Still going to try, though

This time is for me

Aim and Pull

Can’t let myself believe
Something good might happen
Still stuck on what’s gone wrong
My whole life I’m standing still

All I need to do is let go
Close my eyes and take off
My hands won’t let go of the rope
Can’t seem to catch my breath

No other way to get down
Going to have to let go now
Maybe drown on all the things
I haven’t had the courage to try

Every time feels like the last try

My anxiety reaches so high
Hard to make myself believe
There’s one more shot still in me

Frozen

Snow falling around me
So soft and sweet
Cold and harsh
On my cheeks tonight

Falling, falling
Gently into my hair
Touch my skin and
Feel the ice seep inside

Would go back inside
Can’t make myself
Move from this place
Where everything ended

Falling, falling
Gently into my hair
Touch my skin and
Feel the ice seep inside

Am I shivering?
Can’t tell anymore
Suppose it doesn’t matter
All I can see is the snow

Falling, falling
Gently into my hair
Touch my skin and
Feel the ice seep inside

Going to have to move
Sometime soon, but not
Right at this moment, no
This is for me, frozen

Falling, falling
Gently into my hair
Touch my skin and
Feel the ice seep inside

My thoughts, my feelings
My wishes and dreams
Breathe out clouds
Fall to the ground, so cold out

Tonight, this night, without you

Falling, falling

Gently into my hair
Touch my skin and
Feel the ice seep inside

All the Way

Drum roll, please
Bum, bum, bumbum, bum
Roll it down

All the way
Hop onboard today
Keep the rhythm

Bum, bum, bum
Hear the beat
Follow the trail

Go the distance
Just this once
Bum, bum, bumbum, bum

All the way now