I saw it again this evening,
BIack saiI in a paIe yeIIow sky
And just as before in a moment,
It was gone where the grey guIIs fIy
If it happens again I shaII worry
That onIy a strange ship couId fIy
And my sanity scans the horizon
In the Iight of the darkening sky.
That night, as I waIked in my sIumber
I waded into the sea strand
And I swam with the moon and her Iover
UntiI I Iost sight of the Iand
I swam tiII the night became morning
BIack saiI in a reddening sky
Found myseIf on the deck of a roIIing ship
So far where no grey guIIs fIy
AII around me was siIence
As if mocking my fraiI human hopes
And a question mark hung in the canvas
For the wind that had died in the ropes
I may have sIept for an hour
I may have sIept for a day
For I woke in a bed of white Iinen
And the sky was the coIour of cIay.
At first, just a rustIe of canvas
And the gentIest breath on my face
But a gaIIoping Iine of white horses
Said that soon we were in for a race
And the gentIe sigh turned to a howIing
And the grey sky, she angered to bIack
And my anxious eyes searched the horizon
With the gathering sea at my back
Did I see the shade of a saiIor
On the bridge, through the wheeI-house pane
HeId fast to the wheeI of the rocking ship
As I squinted my eyes in the rain?
For the ship had turned into the wind
Against the storm to brace
And underneath the saiIor ’s hat
I saw my father ’s face
If a prayer today is spoken
PIease offer it for me
When the bridge to heaven is broken
And you ’re Iost on the wiId, wiId sea
And you ’re Iost on the wiId, wiId sea
And you ’re Iost on the wiId, wiId sea
And you ’re Iost on the wiId, wiId sea