It Seems To Have Been Forever

it seems to have been forever since i held your hand in mine watched that smile race across my thoughts are storms raging at sea with no ear listening i am alone upon the deck, wandering lost in the stars above and you the sea lies quiescent somewhere you sleep now lost in that vast realm of dream copious as the stars above am i still in your deepest thoughts does it cause an arm to wander across in that emptiness is there a longing we were not ships passing in the night fools yes and i will leave it as such perhaps now there is another i am but a remembrance surfacing in the days confusion they say it is better to have loved, lost but that is a game for philosophers therein lies no comfort to a sailor whose thoughts are storms raging at sea with no ear listening perhaps you also stare into the heavens and wonder, such are thoughts wandering the deck whose fate is a raging sea holding you only in moments when you sleep i no longer dream the sea lies quiescent Phoenix 88 The Patient Stones