Sea Stories

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Sea Stories

By Ryan Johnston

They say, these things come
In waves, and they'll find you

Writing letters, from the shoreline

Or sinking, deep to the bottom

Anchored, to this sadness 

That keeps you in place 

Endless, are the low tides 

Tangled up, in this tension 

Hanging on to the bitter end 

But once in a while 

Someone will come along 

Cutting the lines 

And you find yourself, 

Moving again, 

Back to the start

And, after a while

Someone will come along

Walking through walls

And you'll find yourself

Forgetting, what it was

You built so hard, to keep out

But then, there were those times

What about those times?

You and I, Charting all of those sounds

Navigating around all the bends

Planning all the routes we'd take

Those days were an open ocean

Even moving ahead

I'm still back there

Where ideas would erupt inside you

And I was the village below

How could I help but catch fire?

And now I voyage alone

Clouds block out sunlight

In all time, darkness

But once in a while,

The sun will come along

Breaking the clouds, 

And you find yourself, 

In daylight again, 

This breeze falls around us

Becoming the wind, 

Where you still move me, 

Even from behind

But then, there were those times

What about those times?

You and I, finding direction

Even in the starless sky

Pulling light from the moon

Unveiled by you

And six strings become our compass

And moving on, moving ahead

I can't help but feel, we both lose

Now I voyage alone

This breeze falls all around me

And calm is like the justice 

For all those who consider 

This sinking, and these wasted days 

A crime against, the better things 

That you have been 

When the doors were wide open

And the sun poured like drops of rain

Through the cracks of swollen clouds

While everyone else, was still sleeping