Tethered to Heavy Shores

There is this weight on me,
That is getting harder to ignore
It anchors me down to the same place,
It tethers me to this heavy shore.

I'm trapped, and it becomes a damning spell
To explain what I see at the foot of the swell
For the once majestic riding wave
Is vanquished to the bitter foam at my feet
The shore breathes bare the barren ambitions of the weak.

But I can see what once lingered
Somewhere near the horizon, I see
I see the gulls bathe in
The hues of the sun before the sea

I can see the waters before
They turned into slaves of this dark spitting night
And it is becoming harder to ignore
The life I have; when all I see
Is the life before.
Before I was tethered to this heavy shore.