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This Night I Sail

Powerful and cold is the ocean This night I sail, take me gently For I like the sea now so old And weary from the storm in me Unlike you, so restless and free Take my soul gently out to sea Onto your crest into sparkles of light On your waves’ adrift out to sea To be washed upon a beach of sand Cleaned of stone; bleached white To be made into castles to never stand Washed away into the night As I wish to be taken away in this night The sands of time have all poured out Only the sea left for me to dream about I wish to be like you restless and free And live forever into the deep old sea To become the sand so to remember me Once a castle now part of the deep old sea

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Gordon Mcconnell

Date: 2/4/2019 9:55:00 AM

Really good write Cynthia, lovely imagery and insightful thought with nice rhyme too.

Vince Suzadail Jr.

Date: 11/10/2014 7:48:00 PM

My first true love was the ocean and I never saw her until I was 18.

Cynthia Ferguson
Date: 11/17/2014 6:28:00 AM

I grew up on nantasket beach hull ma, and worlds end Hingham ma, it was beautiful back then as a child I watched lobsters rolling in with the waves and thousands of them running back into the water before they got caught, every time a nor eastern came

Casarah Nance

Date: 10/30/2014 7:00:00 AM

This is a peaceful transition, Soon will come the time we must leave our beach and sail away. this is a real nice image.

Cynthia Ferguson
Date: 10/31/2014 4:10:00 AM

thank you :)

Brenda Meier-Hans

Date: 10/29/2014 9:16:00 AM

Such a beautiful poem and yet so very sad. It was very peaceful to read.

Cynthia Ferguson
Date: 10/31/2014 4:11:00 AM

thank you, I was hoping I got that right, :)