Broken Seas

Split, converge, try to
spin whole cloth
out of fragmented stories
that you never believed,

it's the duty of a leader
to make sure
that the ones who follow
keep their faith strong
even when it's
misplaced in the most
unfortunate of ways.

There's something consuming
about the search for
an absolute truth
but truth is something thalassic –
only a fragment of
what might exist
in the depths of its origin,

and those fragments
are subfuscous, dimmed in
the feeble light we cast
in lighting a single candle

to fight off a thousand
and one nights and more,
because some stories
don't end so much as change.