Current Mariners

Life is the ship  we all go down with, but
the ship does not sink, is unsinkable,
sails on without us, hardly notices
the changing of its crew, the tongue they speak

has but faintest resemblance to our own,
the words we use to trace the ship’s outline,
to try to find the shape, slice of its keel
deep in the darkness through the sea of time 

eerie and …