Ship In A Bottle

A storm is raging
can you see it slowly destroying?
Winds are churning the waves,
these in turn batter the ships.

This ship is in a bottle
unmoved by the battles outside.
Threatened by the outer storms,
it hides within itself.

The glass begins to fog
a storm picks up inside.
How much can the boards withstand?
Boards placed to keep the ship safe.

Clumsily, the bottle is bumped
it crashes to the floor, spilling the contents.
The ship is thrown into the raging seas,
forced to fight against the storms.

It courageously fights the pelting rains,
the blasting winds and crashing waves.
Still the battle of self continues,
pushed farther within itself,
saving strength for battles outside.

What the little ship cannot see
is the damage it's doing to itself.
Ignorance has cause the ruin to spread deeper
destroying the vessel from the inside out.

This ship, once in a bottle,
has not been trained to fight multiple battles.
Its inexperience seems to bring its demise.

What the winds do not know
is they didn't sink the ship;
it sank as it broke in two
under the pressure of self-accomplishment
and the reality of incapability.

November 26, 2006