Lost

Across the starry divide I peer
Where heavens coincide with the sea
Where stars dance to the eerie moon
Where echoes of the past come haunting

Time has left me with mocking laughter
I see no end to my dismal plight
I see hope galloping across moonlit waters
I see my life as it used to be known

For ages my heart has beckoned for love
When fields where green and skies were blue
When laughter of joy filled the room
When tears of compassion drowned every sorrow

With increasing despair I wait
My love keeps the rhythm of my heart
My love calms my agonizing soul
My love strengthens my will to persevere

Come my love..........come soon

Echoed Silence (Quatern)

Slowly, I scan the barren wasteland

Fatigue, it seems, has become my partner

Endless twilight fills the portals

Mocking my thoughts of restless wonder

Ghostly sounds of monotonous creaking

Slowly, I scan the barren wasteland

Caught upward in this icy entrapment

I think lovingly of my love left home

Relinquishing thoughts to my secluded surroundings

I listen intently for past conversations

Slowly, I scan the barren wasteland

Tearfully realizing I'm in echoed silence

I smooth the embroidery passionately sewn

Hoping love will thaw this isolation

Fearful of a coming darkness

Slowly, I scan the barren wasteland

Sailing Barque (Tyburn)

Reaching

Tacking

Rigging

Sailing

Sailing barque, reaching, tacking upward.

Minding her rigging, sailing onward.

Sacrifice

With no moonlight on her hair-
She's saddened by her ebbing chi,
A sea strand of land
Like a finger reaching
Through the sea amid roses, beckoning.
Her hand gliding away like imperial
Seagulls on a breath of air.
She's going to become less as
A watery mermaid amid earthed boundaries.
Crashing waves echo one conversation
In this cruel moment where
love was forever left away.
Clouds came in concealing unrivaled
Content in finding her moon.