A Yorkshire Poet Poet Free verse

On the Sea

I feel let down. I feel cast away. My raft 
has drifted too far from shore and I just 
can’t bring myself to turn back that way!

The uneven lines of the shore silhouette. 
Once t’was my home I find my mind wants 
me to forget! 
When I was a child things were tough. I had 
parents that couldn’t really give me too much 
love. 
Now I find myself in familiar seas.
The country I love wants to abandon me. 

I feel confused as I try to see. What we had 
was good but now that’s history. What we had 
when children could play out in the sun. When 
The fun and laughter started in the dawn 
finishing with the setting sun. When threat was 
a word that we seldom used. When friends were 
friends and no divisions or colours choose!

I remember the days when our imaginations 
could run. We could have fun for days with nothing 
more than bikes, sticks or even chewing gum! 
What happened to the innocence of our golden 
youth? What happened to our lives when we 
understood the colder truths? 

I let my mind drift back sometimes. If I close my 
eyes I can see the sun shine in our smiling eyes. 
I can feel the grass and the summer evening air. 
Hear our voices call and sing as time had no care.

Now I look at the coast and feel
like a separate entity. I look at the people and I 
don’t see you or you or even me. 
The world we had that we thought was ours is 
now it’s being ripped apart and we can see its 
un healing scars. 

I think I’ll stay here on my raft. I think I’ll lay 
under blue skies and twinkling stars. I think I’ll 
let nature do for me. If it wants to take me 
back I’ll find a life to live with another key. If it 
drifts me away into the deeper sea I’ll always 
remember when you were mine and you loved me.

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