Going Through the Motions
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
The boat takes me back
Home today without love or devotion
A mechanical process with a lack
Of sticky messy emotion
A journey of duty, not desire,
As a soldier goes to fight
Machine-like in ice or fire -
No break in the darkness for light
Oh, that the ocean swell
Would obliterate this boat entire
And let the icy waves knell
The bell that drowns the fire
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2013
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