Monday
Feb202012
Look Out Northeastwards
Look you out
Northeastwards
Over a mighty ocean.
See, my son, look there::
Its green depth
Teeming with sea life,
Home of seals,
Sporting, splendid
Its tide has reached
Fullness.
Aye, tune your ear
What's on the waves
Those harkening voices
Your grandmother's bones
Are singing to you::
Songs she learned
Long before she died
The earth is beckoning
Home to you.
The wind of life
Will fill your sail
And bring you
To that shore
Where you shall land::
And if the mist seems new
Then stand you upon the sand
Weep as a man
Come home.
Copyright © 2011 James Lawer
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