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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 44. Two Blue Poems
for his kindness in helping to improve them.
One.
Would you be hurt if I were gone,
my spirit fled before the dawn
without a forwarding address,
my life a brief phenomenon?
I would not leave you in distress,
ungrateful for your tenderness,
yet if you sigh and turn the page,
I could not love you any less.
Mortality, at any stage,
makes some to weep and others rage,
but I seem otherwise inclined
to contemplate the end of age.
I know this falls to humankind,
and to my fate am I resigned;
I beg that you will carry on
when I am dust and out of mind.
Two.
Across the harbor, down the sun,
must race the swiftly ebbing tide
with mainsail sheeted tall and wide
to catch the breeze ere day is done.
As toward the darkling seas we glide,
I raise my hand in fond adieu
to songs and seasons I once knew
before the streams and rivers died.
Embarked aboard with trusty crew,
the far horizons hence I chart
while from these green shores I depart,
no more to walk in morning dew.
Though joy and yearning tie the heart,
I can no longer tarry here,
where once I learned to laugh and fear
and love with all my utmost art.
Tonight my every debt will clear
while ‘neath the stars I meet the wave
from which no angel wings can save,
nor to an island cove can steer.
And though my shipmates think I rave,
I see within the heavens high
those bright, beloved faces nigh,
their features gentle, fond and brave.
Thus may I sail till morning sky
and glassy ocean all are one,
where every tide has ceased to run
and I beneath still waters lie.
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