ashton ramsay / d4. ( wip )

Oh, ghosts keep whispering
The feather of a raven's wing turned
white by the bird's cheeks

ONE.

You are but a child when the sun sets on your life for the first time. 

For as long as you can remember, the wind has blown salt through your hair and the sea has called herself your home. You've awoken with the dawn come each and every morning, darted down the back stairs to follow your father through the alleyway and out to the docks, dancing along the rotten pieces of wood and listening as they creaked beneath you. You know the sound each of them makes, know how each and every one of them feels beneath your calloused feet.

There was a time where you thought yourself more sea than land, when you thought that you blood was made of salt water and that hurricanes could form where your heart beats. You mind filters through all the states of the sea, a blue so calm it looks like glass from shore to horizon and a tempest electrified until a stormy night's sky passing through your mind in a single breath.

The moon rules you; your heart beats with the tides.

You learn how to climb on the docks and on the fishing vessel your father goes out on every morning, start climbing up the rigging and over all the highest parts of the ship, reaching the places that the other men need to be hoisted up to with such ease it's a wonder they let you off when the ship first comes into port after the morning excursion--but you need to go to school, you father is adamant about that, even if you whine and protest every time he sends you on your way.

Papa I want to stay here with you, you always say. He puts his hands on either side of your face and crouches down every time you pout.  

I want more for you, comes his reply each morning, a sad smile to match his sad eyes, one's as blue as the ocean he calls home.

wip.

But the water calls him home, wraps her arms around his throat and drowns him in the deep blue.

This chill, when it gonna leave my bones?
Take the ache so I can go
And be washed in the wilderness

song: before i sleep by joy williams