Shipwreck

An upstream of thoughts
Run relentlessly
Through the weight
Of guilt and fear

Fearlessly I stare
Over and up
On and down
Resenting what
I do not know

An acknowledgement of ignorance
Astonishment of senseless images
Back and forth
Makes it uselessly lost
In a web of dreams and desires

Like the shipwreck sailor
Comes up bare
On the rocks
The immense distance

Between heaven and hell

Lightning and ground

Sun or rain

What storm have I

Inside ?
Run away and fly

Jump from the ledge

Up in the sky

Let me fall down

Swiftly

On what I think is my life

London, July 25, 2007. This poem is based on my impressions to the painting "A Shipwreck" by Géricault,which is at the National Gallery , Trafalgar Square, London.