Unsinkable

To call yourself unsinkable is to live in defiance of your own weight
Boats are made of steel and wood. They would sink in a second without the workings and choices of men

Knotted hands knot bands to hold ourselves tight together

Tar lines the edges of your wooden beams

And lines the smokers lung

It's almost the same thing

A painful stinking solvent

To handle problems you can't solve

To say that you will always float carries with it the understanding that that it is not easy to do

A ship, little more than a buoyant bowl often gets filled with water in stormy seas

Everyone knows that but

How hard it can be to explain

All this water

In the balmy breeze and gentle tides

to be unsinkable is not to never have the waves over your head

It is to Bob back up from darkest depths

To Crest the surface tension and fight to remain above it

Even when you wonder what sits on the floor

Of that great deep ocean