Remorse Code - Richard Hawley

You’re caught

In the net

Fathoms deep

In regret

Remorse code

The message sent

Count the cost

Of a force spent

In those white lines

Made your eyes wide

Unenlightened lies

In those white lines

The ship is wrecked

With all hands

Look to the reef

False lights from the land

Way off course

The fool’s sail is set

Lashed to the wheel

To pay the stars their debt

With those white lines

Made your eyes wide

Unenlightened lies

In those white lines

The clipper calls

Her siren dares

And she gives you

A hand lock of hair

Laid to waste

Drowned alone

Burned out

A seashell of a soul

With those white lines

Made your eyes wide

Unenlightened lies

In those white lines

Oh, those white lines

Oh, those white lines

Oh, those white lines

Made your eyes wide

Unenlightened lies

In those white lines

I was likewise

In those white lines

Oh, those white lines