Sunday, August 19, 2012

Seascape

artwork: ralph murre


Seascape
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John

Sea I love the way you tremble
Like my lady lost inside my arms
Lying spent and sighing
Sometimes she thinks
She might be dying
Like a moth who's caught
Between the lampshade and the flame
"Hold me tight", she whispers
Like the wind that wraps itself around
The tall pine tree
I cling I cannot let her slip away
She is my love
She is who tells me what I am
I am the waiting shining sun
I am the moon whose light
Will help to fill the weary night
With rays of yellow gold
Just like the dawn of yesterday
Sea I love the way you tremble
Your waves will pound and crash upon the sand
Her tangled auburn hair strand for strand
Will mingle with the crystal tears
Your emerald ocean sheds
My lady's laughing sighing
Like a seagull flying
High above your breakers
Tumbling towards the land
She takes my hand and whispers
"Don't let go. I love you so"
Sea I love the way you tremble
Like my lady lost inside my arms
Lying spent and sighing
So like a dying Queen
Between
The crumpled sheets


~ first published in Unsung Songs