A wind tossed ship lost at sea <br />heavy tempest blowing mightily <br />even that harbor light <br />which shines so bright <br />never to return my love to me <br /> <br />The sea, that judgmental sea <br />claimed the one promised to me <br />and no one who heard it could explain <br />the mysterious sound the waves made <br /> <br />The lighthouse searches the sound <br />for that forgotten ship never found <br />I walk the shipyard late and pray <br />to catch a glimpse of that familiar face <br /> <br />When the evening settles down, I sleep <br />an empty place beside me <br />lately having the same dream <br />I remember only partially <br /> <br />I hear a sound, forgotten yet familiar <br />I rise from my troubled slumber <br />and walk out to the open shore <br />which meets the sea as a door <br /> <br />I then see a man dragged to shore <br />drowned, why nobody knows <br />someone says it was insanity <br />trying to swim out to sea <br /> <br />The dream ends, I wake again <br />I listen to the sound the waves send <br />listening closer now to the bay <br />I hear my name called so faint <br /> <br />© 2009 by Kevin Howell<br /><br />Kevin Howell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forgotten-ship/
