Rightly Jennings Poet Lyric

These Waves

your ocean waters begin to rise
    It's waves make a foaming fuss
  all your hopes and dreams left home
just as you thought things were bad enough
   collecting experience has shown
     you have always, you've always been alone

 castle walls sure to take a pounding
       defenses up, should you care
  dearly losing faith, post-haste
 take the time you've got from here to there
  after all these years I'm still amazed
you'll not go under but rise above these waves  

  though we're not built for happy sailing
     from Baltimore to this shore
        obligations to engage or
 take a knotted rope, struggle no more
  current's none too friendly stowaways
 we'll not be broken but rise to ride these waves
                   coast to coast most beautiful and strange
             we'll not go under but rise to ride these waves

                                           these waves

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Laura Breidenthal April 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM "after all these years I'm still amazed you'll not go under but rise above these waves" I am amazed by the poem - its structure and content both.. yes! Ride those waves! I'm a wave rider, though at times I can go under... I am either overwhelmed, or slightly enjoy it. Awesome one! Always, Laura Rightly Jennings May 13, 2015 at 10:52 AM It's finished. Lol. Hurrah! Rightly Jennings April 20, 2015 at 4:50 AM Thanks. The music to this is far from finished. There'll be a little more text when sung, the poem, written version can do without the more. The one I'm working on is always my favourite.