Shipwrecked! Shipwrecked!
How I remember being shipwrecked!
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Waves, waves, waves.
Crash, crash, crash.
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Shipwrecked! Shipwrecked!
How I remember being shipwrecked!
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Darkness, darkness, darkness.
Darkness upon darkness upon darkness.
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Shipwrecked, shipwrecked!
Oh, how I never want to be shipwrecked!
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No hope, no friends, no light.
Madness, madness, madness.
Water, water, water.
Drunk, drunk, drunk.
Shipwrecked, shipwrecked!
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The ships wrecked!
The ships wrecked!
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Quick, quick, quick!
Quick, quick, quick!
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Water, water, water!
Buckets, buckets, buckets!
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No, no, no!
Please, please, please.
No! No!
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The ships wrecked!
The ships wrecked!
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Screams, tears, water!
//
Horror, fright, water!
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Help, shout, water!
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Hold, hands, water!
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Water, water, water!
Water, water, water!
Water, water, water!
Water, water, water!
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Help us God! Help us!
We believe in You!
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Help us God! Help us!
We are your servants!
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Help us God! Help us!
We will be good from now on!
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Help us God! Help us!
We will change!
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One more chance God!
One more chance!
//
Our eyes have opened!
Our eyes have opened!
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You are our God!
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You are the only God!
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There is no God but You!
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We have seen!
//
We have understood!
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We believe in You!
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Land! Light! People!
//
Hooray!
Hurrah!
Bravo!
//
Whoopee!
Yay!
Tango!
//
Phew,
Well that was easy,
I knew we could do it,
Thank God.
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I mean the universe...
I mean...
You know what I mean.
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God?
Pfft...
Who’s that?
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Who's that?
//
Aaargh! Aaargh! Aaargh!
Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
We believe in you!
//
Too late now.
Good night.
Sleep tight.
//
Like, very tight.
Very, very tight.
//
Ribcages breaking through each other kind of tight.
//
Forever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever…
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And ever.
//
Did I mention, ever?
//
Yes,
For-ever, and ever.
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See ya,
Wouldn’t wanna be ya.
Bye bye.
//
Like, bye.
Like, proper bye.
Like, to a whole different world kind of bye.
Like, something you couldn’t even dream of kind of bye.
Like, bye.
//
Yeah,
You get it,
I know you do.
//
Of course you do,
Don’t you?
//
It's okay, it’s okay,
You will get it.
//
Like, you’re really going to get it type of get it,
Like, you deserve it type of get it,
Got it?
//
You earnt it,
You deserve it,
I mean seriously,
You did,
Splendid!
//
So yeah,
enjoy.
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Wonderful,
Wonderful!
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As we expected.
We would have it no other way.
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Perfect.
Just perfect.
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Okay,
Enough now,
Goodbye.
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Like, good for us to say bye to you type of goodbye,
Like, a really good-bye.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish,
That type of goodbye.
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A really goodbye.
//
Really.
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All aboard?
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All aboard!
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Goodbye.
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Muhammad Bayazeed
Faith | Inspiration | Expression | Love
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This was such a refreshing take on poetry! Love it!