Lost at Sea

Lost At Sea

A shadowy form haunts the crumbling clifftops overlooking a perilous sea

It appears unannounced, unwelcome, unwanted, by other spirits set free

The shapeless form appears again and again as the waves crash onto the shore

Tormented and tortured in body and soul by things that have happened before.

His boat had set sail with the crew all aboard but before the skipper was there

For reasons unknown fishermen went alone into the salty night air

For hour upon hour he waited and watched expecting the trawlers return

Hour after hour in terrible gales, while the rough sea continued to churn.

It was decades ago when the boat went to sea but the skipper continues to wait

The mystery prevails why the crew did set sail and not wait for the storm to abate.

Were the nets ever cast, was the craft overturned or just snatched away out of reach

For no sightings of wrecks, broken bows or decks were ever washed up on the beach.


No one could tell, of the fate that befell the trawler that terrible night
No clues left to see in the wild raging sea not a sign of the boat was in sight
Could the skipper have saved every one from their graves this he would never know
How his boat disappeared and came to it's rest in the murky dark ,waters below.


Now the skipper can't rest everyone did their best but a rescue was not meant to be
 But night  after night he still waits for a sight of his boat and his men lost at sea.

                   

                                                                       04/03/2012