Water, oh terrible water!
Will you drown us in your embrace?
Will waves massage the air from my lungs
and leave me bloated by your shores?
Or will I sink to the bottom of your mysteries,
to the unexplored places?
And will unknown creatures feast on my flesh,
and spit out my bones so cruelly?
Oh water! Swallower of fools,
and those who do not seek higher shore!