A Window By the Sea

I want to escape to some place For the whole of eternity, And I know my mind tells me to find A window by the sea. Protected by a solid wall Of mother-rock from the storm outside. But I can’t fight curiosity, Hence the window – so I can know And yet have a place to hide. I want to free my mind and soar, So what if I can’t flee? Watch the tide and the heavens collide Through my window by the sea. Send my eyes out to the sky Like a gull with a foam-tipped wing. Glide over curved blue waves. Return at noon, by the light of the moon Hear the sleepy old ocean sing. I want to watch the sun sink into space In my mind, my territory. Disruptions are few when I look through The window by the sea. Watch the horizon doze in the day, Turn dark and sinister by night, Feel the loneliness around See the stars shine, know that all of it is mine, Wake up in the brine-soaked light. I want a boat to take me away Go back to my identity Yet come back from the shore, be nobody once more, By my window by the sea.