The Sea
--------

The sails of ships unfurling in the wind...
The smell of salty air...

The sight of seagulls flying east...
A whale, submerging to its lair..

The calm of the waves, the blue-green waves, lapping upon the shore...

As they had for time uncounted--before the time of lore...

The sands of the beach, like stars in the sky...
Spread to the far off fields of rye...

Upon the sea I shall finally rest...
My very self spent... from a lifetime of test...

Upon the waves I shall finally lie...
Until I fade away... and die.


Penned by my hand on the 4th of Glacian, in the year 396 AF.