I remember
How it started
The affair between
A guardian and what he stands to protect
The bricks laid
Forming a tower to
Reach the sky
The higher I stand
The more to see
Not just you
But the enemies who sail
Closer every day
My eye lies not
Gazing upward
Toward what we could be
Toward the bright
Sun climb atop the horizon each day
But a cruel world below
All I see
With my watchful eye
A gaze glued downward
Are the foes which surround
That which I love
Love
My purpose
Without you I mean nothing
Just a tower
Facing nothing
But an empty sea
With no one to shine upon
And warn away
But is it that power which I love
Or you, my dear?
Does it give me purpose
To have someone to watch over
Does it give you meaning
Or do you stand in fear
Of me
Or the world I see?
Do you even love me?
See me?
Know me?
We have never met
Our love a dream
Shared between us day
And night
But how does one share
Without a hand to hold?
Where goes my gaze
Without someone to see?
A gaze to meet
A lip to kiss
Or a hand to hold
And yet
I protect you
Or do you
Protect me?
From a distant foe
With hate in their heart
Or envy
Or from that space which surrounds
Always closing in
Circling
Stealing away precious peace
Infiltrating lies and doubt
Consuming all that stands for
My joy, my anchor
Until all that remains
Is fear
Is the voice
Which crumbles my gaze
Until I cannot see what lies ahead because
It does not exist
I do not exist
You do not
Exist
Each
But for what
And for whom
Are my prey
Just other islands
Other lives
Other worlds
Than me
And I am the ships racing to gaze
Upon the same sea?
But how will I know
If one day I look away
And my precious sea
Belongs no longer to me?