Should you decide to sail away

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Photo credit:  (Scott Cain) "Should you decide to sail away"

Written for Cheyenne


If you go

I will not interfere  

I will stand upon the foredeck

White trousers and blue blazer

Flapping in the breeze

 

Watching in stoic silence 

Your vessel departing for warmer waters 

Staring without wavering 

Blinking not 

Until that dot on the horizon disappears


I will not tell the crew what I had just witnessed 

It is not their burden to know.

Every one of your words unforgettable in my soul.


I will look to their smiles for gratitude 

I will seek their laughter for latitude

But in my cabin 

In the quiet moments

I will play a different tune out of my eyes 

Where every note remembers 

The one who filled my cup in unexpected ways. 


Today’s entry in the ships log

Will not mention any fever-filled designs 

To swim to an uncharted shoal 


At breakfast in the salon 

where I take my grub 

I will pray that fate finds you

Ship safe in your next harbor

And I will morn inside

For a finest first mate that is you

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