Onward, To Charybdis!

A bit of a change of tone with this one...
Charybdis was a Greek sea monster depicted as a giant whirlpool.

I am as lonely and lovelorn as a clam
That rests beneath the roiling waves
For her, I be enough just as I am?
Or will I be cast into forgotten caves?

I am the ship and I am the storm
I am the captain's screaming plea
I am the lighthouse, I am every form
I am quicksilver, like the azure sea.

I am as fickle as the shifting tide
Ebbing and pulsing and rising beneath
For the ocean, it is wondrous and wide
And all I am is skin and teeth.

She bursts and smashes below my feet
An austere, alluring dance of death
Onto the time-worn cliffs, a beat
As rhythmic but as erratic as my breath.

A puzzle is written into my eyes
And the embrace of time pulls my cheek
My hair is like the clouds in the skies
And I crack like a rock when I speak.

I have seen it change, its turbulent face
Every day as I wait on this ledge
Now it seems to have collected an empty space
That it tosses around about its edge.

I am as puzzled as the starfish
I am like the turtle, wandering free
Locked into a dream, in a twisted wish
Before its vastness, I am a flea.

Every day, nature's colours fade
And spiral into rotten gray ravines
Yet from what I knew I have not strayed
Through the games of kings and queens.

I tilt myself forward, towards her maw
Her swansong, it sings ballads to my soul
The morning mist and foam, they draw
Their grappling hooks across my whole.

Onward, to Charybdis! And over the cliff
A twisted body tucks and curls
Eaten by the whirlpool, like a skiff
Into its tumultuous swirls.

Towards the rocks, nay, into her heart
I am closed up, an old hero, like Priam
In water we are together as I fall apart
I am as lonely, as lovelorn, as a clam.