Lights On the Water
lights on the water
old shrimp boat coming through
strange looking craft
with a stranger looking crew
they left out yesterday
and have not been long a’sailing
must have been a death a’board
I can hear the seas a’wailing
singing songs to the next of kin
carrying the seaman's lament
on the music of the wind
the sails are half lowered
as the old boat shambles in
and then
the deceased is carried home
by thin and bony men
biding their time
‘til they
themselves
are carried in.
Copyright © Ej Sansam | Year Posted 2018
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