The moon was as threatening as a baby
                  Yet my heart thudded and tugged
                      
                 I wanted to scream to the silent night
                           What all this was for
  
                     Pasting on a silver smile
                  I leaned down to my sister
   
                  Never knowing the pain I felt
           Not quite old enough to be a man, I was

     But old enough to know, I would never be saved

           Her flushed cheeks and nervous posture
                Brown ringlets and green eyes

               Like a doll, she would be saved

                  A woman grasped on to her
                    She tried to twist away
  
             I simply nodded and hugged her
    
                            She went away

                   Soft tears ran down my face,
                 a man threatened us with a gun
                 so we wouldn't get on a lifeboat
                   and instead leave the world
                        as a mass of people
                      mostly men, poor and rich

                      We were tossed out to sea
                            The boat unsteady
                    Frigid waters enveloped me
 
                     Numbness came over me
                    I knew how this would end
                        Eventually I caved

                    The cold ocean took me
                              Down, Dark

                         With the Titanic
                   The boat I once trusted