The Man in my Eyes

My flight is uncontrollable
beneath the heavy waves...

And when the sand of the
shores finds my unconscious body

I awaken, and my eyes
are named dazed and confused.

The waves tug and push,
and they sound like muffled screams.

Sand is caught in the mysterious
and open wounds the ocean gave me.

The trees sway almost with
the wind in a breeze of anarchy.

My heart races faster
than the tugging waves...

The pieces of my ship are
scattered along this shore.

Broken like pride, useless
pieces of trees long dead.

A twitch becomes a movement
within my limbs and I rise.

Yet I only descend back to
the rugged sheets of sand.

My eyes roll and my environment
fades to black.

A hooded figure with wings
visits me in realm unknown to me.

His presence comforts me
and soothes my soul.

A hand meets my shoulder,
and a voice tells me to wake up.

Before my opening eyes
fades into my vision, a man.

He stands like a lion, and remains silent
with the grin such majesty.

No pride encompasses his essence,
but only truth and humility

The sand becomes smooth and temperate...
the waves, they cease.

The breeze halts and the trees
past the beach remain still.

Time itself stops...
and the man steps forward...

The sand does not budge
at any movement of his feet.

He leans down to a knee
and whispers to me,

"Forward by faith."

My ears go deaf and ring,
and my eyes shut in the pain...

Once more they open and he is gone...
yet I am healed...

The waves continue, and the salt water
pushes itself out through my eyes.

Call my eyes opened,
as they behold one vision.

Times carries on...as do I,
Forward by faith.