Pencil Marks in the Sand
Water surrounds the only place you can call home
Counting the weeks
Each tally mark reading
1, 2, 3
You remember the first day you woke up
The first time animal became part of your name
The last time society said hello
The first time you said goodbye
4, 5, 6
The first time frogs tasted good raw
The start of society's silence
Your body changes to the animal you are
7, 8, 9, 10
Life was complex
Getting used to it was the sadness that filled your eyes
The pencil now red with the blood of nature
11
The pencil reaches towards you
It has its own soul
It has its own life
As you try to take yours
12, 13, 14, 15
Pain becomes your life
Passion is the past
And tears are the present
16
Something washes up
Your senses have made you sharp
The light pulls you out of the darkness
The fight pushes outside
Every sense tells you to push away
But your body is pulling you forward
You stop in front of the piece of paper as it floats onto shore
Every moment of these weeks
Make tears fuel the fire
And pain uses everything else
As you remember the details of the crash
All of the death and the misery
The darkness that surrounded you
The people that lost their lives
The lives you stole the only thngs pushing for your safety
17, 18, 19 20
The sunlight beckons you
But the shadows are your place to stay
The paper dries quickly
And the little bit of writing keeps you warm
21
The roars of the ocean
Scare you away
And the pain of every week
Gets rolled up and shoved into the piece of plastic you always kept
The ocean becomes wider as the plastic rolls on
22
Everyone rolls into your mind for the final act
As more roaring fills your mind
Your ears fill with ecstacy and fright
As you realize the roar isn't from your mind
Civilization flows back into your mind
And the jungle can't help to fight back
Helicopter blades fill your view
And the world that you know of
Hovers away and the real world comes back
Your plane that took 22
Is nothing but forgotten after week 22
And society welcomes you back at week 402
403
Dots fill your eyes
And lines dot your sky
As everything rolls back into place
Your pencil is the only thing that you had
Since your small accident
But you realize you are always on an island
And the only tool you need is
A Pencil