write what you know

"Write what you know"
So I dived into love
Not even keeping my head above
The waters rushing all around
The way they cut off all my sound
And silenced what I thought I knew
The only thing they left was you
Stranded, I was so alone
Without my paper, pencil, home
the scratching of the quill was gone
As was the ever pleasant song
And so I grabbed a hand above
Who pulled me out,
away from love
And left me high and dry ashore,
Crying, sighing, wanting more
So next I, museless, walked the sea
And tried to find my quill, to reach
Out for the pen that knew my hand
Better than that decent man
But when I saw that merman there
Pen in hand, knots in his hair,
I reached out to the thing I knew
The only thing I knew was you
And now I live, consumed by fate
Surrounded by these things I hate
But by my own accursed hand,
I live somewhere below the land
Waiting on the love I knew
That should, that had
to become true
And not an apparition of the pen in hand on slate
For that was all my drowning was,
and not a thing of fate