Cynthia Ferguson Poet Rhyme

This Night I Sail

Powerful and cold is the ocean
This night I sail, take me gently
For I like the sea now so old
And weary from the storm in me
Unlike you, so restless and free

Take my soul gently out to sea 
Onto your crest into sparkles of light
On your waves’ adrift out to sea
To be washed upon a beach of sand
Cleaned of stone; bleached white
To be made into castles to never stand
Washed away into the night

As I wish to be taken away in this night
The sands of time have all poured out 
Only the sea left for me to dream about
I wish to be like you restless and free
And live forever into the deep old sea
To become the sand so to remember me
Once a castle now part of the deep old sea

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Gordon Mcconnell February 4, 2019 at 9:55 AM Really good write Cynthia, lovely imagery and insightful thought with nice rhyme too.

Vince Suzadail Jr. November 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM My first true love was the ocean and I never saw her until I was 18. Cynthia Ferguson November 17, 2014 at 6:28 AM I grew up on nantasket beach hull ma, and worlds end Hingham ma, it was beautiful back then as a child I watched lobsters rolling in with the waves and thousands of them running back into the water before they got caught, every time a nor eastern came

Casarah Nance October 30, 2014 at 7:00 AM This is a peaceful transition, Soon will come the time we must leave our beach and sail away. this is a real nice image. Cynthia Ferguson October 31, 2014 at 4:10 AM thank you :)

Brenda Meier-Hans October 29, 2014 at 9:16 AM Such a beautiful poem and yet so very sad. It was very peaceful to read. Cynthia Ferguson October 31, 2014 at 4:11 AM thank you, I was hoping I got that right, :)