close your mind

in all seriousness
your mind is closed

you cling to a book
you hold tight to it
like a lifeboat
in troubled waters

if you let go
in the storm
you'll sink beneath the waves

then you would be where I am

I am the siren
on the rocks
singing to you
to let go

if you let go
in the storm
you'll sink beneath the waves

I am the siren
when you near the rocks
a flash
and I am gone

beneath the waves

you don't trust me

and you shouldn't

I would drag you down
so deep
that you might never surface again

you would be held
beneath the waves
forever

you stop your ears
or have your men tie you
to the mast

and even so

you look with longing
at my circling form
as I swim by calling

and then dive deep