Anesthesia

Slip, slide, walk away
Turn away into the night
You’re not wanted anymore
No longer must you try to fight.

You did well, that is sure
Though it wasn’t meant to be.
You can’t cure a blind man
If he doesn’t want to see.

So dive beneath the churning waves
Let depth hide you again.
Hide in dark rejection
Among legions of other men.

Ignore the line cast down to you
It leads nowhere but Hell.
Swim instead toward the light
That reveals a crack in a shell.

Climb up onto a sunlit shore,
Just one more effort to give.
Reward waits for you and all
Who only wish to live.