The Song of the Sea

The Song of the Sea

As the wind blows to the sandy shore

So I travel in sleepless night to her door

Along the rocky coast I shall swim

Until I finish my ageless hymn

The clouds roll in, the tide rolls out

Thundering surf, nature’s shout

As I look for her lone sad cry

For the song of the sea

For the sea has its song

Sung in the fathoms deep

Amidst the silvery throng

Like music from conch shells

Full steady and strong

She strides down clad in white

Like the oyster shell, pear and light

She waits for her merman’s return

Their love so hot as a fire to burn

The tides flows in, the stars come out

Revealing her face full of doubt

Her love has not appeared

She shivers so cold now with fear

The merman swam down to the white one’s lair

To seek a treasure for his love’s brown hair

Into the jaws of danger under the ocean dark

Lurks the bringer of death, the great white shark

In the seaweed the reef and the mud

They fought for food, love and blood

Among the trinkets silver and gold

The fighters grew weak then so cold

The blood runs free, the bodies rise

To float on the waters under heavenly skies

As the merman drifts off upon the ocean stream

Of the mortal woman lost to him in his dreams

She finds him among the seaweed on the tide

Holding his body in the surf, sum of her fears

He had promised her forever but he had lied

All she received is memories and tears

The stars are here, the stars are there

The heavens shine brilliant above the sea

Her love is dead; she has lost her only one

Now she can see all that she will ever be

For man is mortal and doomed to die

But the ocean is timeless, one can only sail

Upon its crest, hear the singing cry

Of the beautiful and titanic humpback whale

The waters are deep, the fathoms so blue

The sea holds life, so vast, so true

Still I swim and sing again of she

Who learned my song, the sad song

The song of the sea.