A Sailor's Horizon - Ryan Simpson

The sun sets low across the sky

As whispers sound from tide to tide

The rhythm echoes throughout the sea

As constant as a humming bee

The sunlight maps a path to peace

Water and sky make horizon’s crease

 

Water sparkles like the midnight sky

Marking a path to travel by

A novel written without end

New pages turned with every bend

 

A distant port he seeks to find

But his destination is another kind

A search for love for strength for hope

All solved by sails and scars and rope

 

What if the port comes and goes

And still the man has longing woes?

Will he simply stop his quest?

Or challenge his character to another test?

 

He’ll overcome all hardships’ waves

And achieve the destiny he craves

A sailor’s life bound to the sea

The only place that he feels free

The sunlight maps a path to peace

Water and sky make horizons crease