Co Sufferers

Desolate and desperate..
Our ships headed on
Different courses

How would you know
Where I'd land up
How would I know
That you'd follow me

Into trenches
And depths that
Nobody dared traverse

How would I know
That we'd some day
Be co-sufferers of
A pain so uncommon
And a bond so rare

Would you have known
Our laws?!
Our luck?!

In a storm of insanity
In a whirlpool of emotions
In a hurricane of Ill luck..

Would you have known
This strangeness would some day
Bring us close?

That if our ships clashed
Or crashed and shredded to planks
We'd only have
Each other to hold
To float or to sink

Together, co sufferers
Of a disjoint fate..
Woven together by
The pain in our eyes..

But at least I'll know
That you knew my pain
And I knew yours
And in that moment
We were anchored
To each other

And that
We both survived