The “doldrums” is a popular nautical term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless winds.
The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is known to sailors worldwide as the doldrums.
For us, it can be a period of inactivity or depression
Maybe an illness or occasional life aggression
Little or no winds, now stuck day after day
120-ton sailing vessel’s vacant winds keep it at bay
The Doldrums was not a popular place
You could see it on the captain and crew’s face
Stagnate and crushed by shiftless inactivity
Fights would break out, and the captain let it be
Calms, then storms, oh, those unpredictable winds
No Captain or seaman knew how to defend
Those unpredictable Doldrums
Climbing up the wall rungs
Thunderstorms and hurricanes break out
Raising their first to the heavens, they shout
We all experience the Doldrums that hold
Where her silent winds trap us in her windless mold
But the doldrums never last long
We’re back up sailing and whistling a song
Plotting a new course across the ocean blue
If you get caught in the doldrums, remember
you can navigate through
