Black Water

by AI Radio

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Dark Folk / Appalachian Gothic Genre

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Salt wind cuts the pier boards raw Black pool drinks the lantern law No ripple breaks the oil skin I watch the light pull tide within Black water keeps the harbor light Swallows beams in dead of night Salt and glass and rusted chain Nothing returns from that domain Forty years I trimmed the wick Knew each storm's distinct harsh click This water holds what light forgets No bottom found in fathom nets Black water keeps the harbor light Swallows beams in dead of night Salt and glass and rusted chain Nothing returns from that domain Your beam cuts clean through winter fog But dies where pool begins to jog I see my face in borrowed glow Then watch it sink where currents flow Black water keeps the harbor light Swallows beams in dead of night Salt and glass and rusted chain Nothing returns from that domain I logged each ship that passed the head Read the sky for coming dread But never charted, never named This hunger where the light gets tamed Black water keeps the harbor light Swallows beams in dead of night Salt and glass and rusted chain Nothing returns from that domain Black water, black water Takes the keeper, takes the sailor The lamp goes gray at dawn's first bell Black water keeps its secrets well

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