My Face Or Yours - Ship-Wretched Revisited

My Face Or Yours (Ship-wretched revisited) Out on the reef, lurk broken timbers Phantom remains of his long ravaged boat Each fitful sleep brings a new silver moon And his silhouette yacht now afloat But in the day those dank timbers sway Like some awful thing that expects you So he watches the ocean for one little motion That might suggest imminent rescue And there in the ocean churned lather He spotted a floating cadaver But it couldn't be someone he’d known For he’d started his voyage alone Then at the reef where his boat came to grief Still no-one else was aboard He’d made all the checks about previous wrecks So he muttered some words to his lord He dragged the man out and turned him about And stared momentarily thrown The face smashed about had its eyes eaten out But the ear ring was what made him groan His certainty grew as he knew it would do When the arm with the sticking out bone Had the words Tom and Sue in a heart shaped tattoo And the disfigured face was his own