Blue Whale Breaths

Like migrants on an overloaded raft 
we're desperately clinging to the night..

It's embers are still burning brightly within the hardened few..
We are the Yuri Gagarin's of space flight...

The spiritual gathering was hours ago
we are now stragglers of the fragmented shoal
utter stubbornness and contempt for sleep..
Nothing to prove except stupidity
we have no objective, no goal...

Pandoras lids unscrew themselves, 
straight for the glistening rocks we sail..
Ugly sea monsters rise from the black depths
fragmented fragile consciousness
is bombarded with barbed wire hail...

We empty our large lungs of precious oxygen
Then inhale like majestic blue whales taking habitual breaths..
instead of oxygen it's toxic alkyl nitrates
our venial sins will one day cause our untimely deaths...