…is a sad but beautiful song

The heavens wheel endlessly above
and the night whispers it’s sad refrain
the hours have left me drowning once again
in the vast seas of my loneliness
deep and green the air is restless
and dark waves beat upon the shore
until fading into the distance
I can’t hear them anymore
even the stars on high have come undone
I feel the faint rush of my blood
feather-light, like the caress of the sun
yet still I float like an abandoned boat
upon the azure deep of night
rocking gently back and forth
the shoreline ever out of sight
I am filled with a great longing
to take that endless flight
to fall into the soft abyss of dreams
into the honeyed remnants of memories
there, where images of you
are like music to my soul
painted in your true colours
all the shades of darkness and light
winding across the distant reaches
to the very edges of the night
I ache like a river that hastens to flow
to swim through your deep oceans
timeless drifting, weightless shifting
in the teeming silence I feel less alone
but lonely, is the sound of the wind
and lonely, the sea does weep
then morning comes to cushion the fall
and lonely is a sad but beautiful song
© Ann Bagnall