champagne1982
Dangerous Liaison
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2002
- Posts
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Something Better
Here on the shoals of nothing
I have lost the power
to be one with my thoughts
my mind drifts without a sure
hand on the tiller and my ideas
seem lost in the doldrums
Pull me up into the glare
of a strange noontide
mottled with brilliance
as the calm surface swells
and recedes with each breath
Gaia takes in her somnolent rest.
Can I find contented stillness
when I know that time and tide
are turning pages of history
reading without learning
lessons taught beyond school
by the sages of experience?
How I long for a breeze
to catch the main and billow
the sheets with a freshened
air blowing us beyond
the treacherous reef beneath
our keel and forward
to something, anything at all.
Here on the shoals of nothing
I have lost the power
to be one with my thoughts
my mind drifts without a sure
hand on the tiller and my ideas
seem lost in the doldrums
Pull me up into the glare
of a strange noontide
mottled with brilliance
as the calm surface swells
and recedes with each breath
Gaia takes in her somnolent rest.
Can I find contented stillness
when I know that time and tide
are turning pages of history
reading without learning
lessons taught beyond school
by the sages of experience?
How I long for a breeze
to catch the main and billow
the sheets with a freshened
air blowing us beyond
the treacherous reef beneath
our keel and forward
to something, anything at all.