THE SEA
| Gossamer clouds show sparkling white In the blue of a summer sky And slowly but ever so gracefully The gulls go gliding by The air is scented with Neptune's spice The salt of the restless sea And crystal sands that glitter with pride Are forever beckoning me Like prancing white steeds the foaming waves Come charging to the shore They've thundered in through the ages And they will for ever more Armoured shellfish sidle away And hide any place they can They press so close in the cleft of rocks They resent the intrusion of man The soft sand sinks beneath my feet As I wade along the shore Tiny waves quickly cover my tracks To hide that I've walked there before The sounds are varied and many An orchestral wonderland Mother nature's conducting the music And her baton is firmly in hand Endless ribbons of seaweed Grope hopelessly for the shore And just as it seems they will reach it They're pulled back to sea once more I sit on a rock at the water's edge And contentment is nurturing me The water playfully swirls and sways It's the dance of the magical sea A lighthouse stark against the blue It's clad in a pure white gown It warns of the dangers of hidden reefs Where many a ship went down A tourist boat far out to sea Happy passengers on its deck Too soon it is lost to my vision It becomes a vanishing speck But it has started my mind to wandering For a dreamer ever I'll be And soon I'm lost in my private world And the wonders of the sea History's book is opened wide And I turn its treasured page With the gift of imagination I am back in another age I can see a 'jolly roger' Flapping proudly in the breeze Through the eyes of a child, my mind runs wild I can see anything that I please I see the locker of Davy Jones And the treasures it hides so well And the countless mysteries still unsolved They're his secret, and he wont tell A galleon rests at anchor And further out to sea A fleet of tall ships sailing by It seems so real to me Two ships assail each other With cannons of flaming fire This real world can no longer hold me I can dream to my hearts desire I am on the ship 'Endeavour' I'm on deck with the captain and crew When first they sighted this untamed land The land of the kangaroo But a crashing wave on the rock where I sit Resounds with a shattering din My daydreams have left me stranded The tide is rolling in So I paddle ashore in water knee deep Of regret, I haven't a trace As the waves at my back gently nudge me There's a childish smile on my face I have sailed on ships of yesteryear I have watched as their sails were set And the price I paid for this journey? Only my legs got wet K.D. Abbott © 2007 |
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