Spurning all yet tried ports
Ship captain calls ahead
The wind must not be ignored
On to new horizons!
The stars are out tonight!

Guided by the Light
Through words spoken to the universe
The great expanse fastened to all souls

Through sea or storm
The wind must not be ignored

Pour

Pour red wine
Pour red wine and I’ll be fine

Share some bread
Share some bread before we’re dead

Talk all night
Talk all night we’ll be alright

I want you to know
I want you to know I could never go

eulogy

and so the sun rises

bringing warmth over the land I was given

on this land where I now lay

looking over the ocean

pouring into the bay

 

this land I did not appreciate 

I broke it in

I toiled during those days

under the sun and during the rain

I laboured through the seasons

as a man made to work

only resting and smoking when the sun dropped west

 

this land became a place for my demons

and anger grew like a weed

I cursed the soil

and never worked another day

I broke in this land

as a broken man

with sorrow I look back at it all

and all the pain caused

 

the new day has just begun

with my ashes scattered on this land

under the golden sun

Distance

I no longer know anyone;
Not my brothers nor my sisters,
No longer my mother and father.
Those that sat at my table have become strangers,
The room once filled with people, holds only the shadow of conversation.
The eyes of my closest companions contain thoughts I do not understand.
I have not eaten with my family,
Or shared a drink with a friend, in a while.

As far back I look
I have been alone