Standing On The Shore

Standing On The Shore - Anne Briggs

Through the mist my ship has sailed

Leaving me behind

All the things left unsaid

That were in my mind

When I stood on it's deck

Strangely things I saw

Strangely they have vanished now

Standing on the shore

Memories of the seas I sailed

Lands I gazed upon

When I turned to draw the chart

All of them were gone

When I stood on it's deck

Strangely things I saw

Strangely they have vanished now

Standing on the shore

Sandy hills lying round

Nothing standing clear

Softly light is falling through

Time was never here

Headlands fading out of sight

Horizons disappear

Hazy shores and silent seas

Nothing do I hear

Air and water grass and sand

Merging into one

In the silence of all this

I am still alone

The logbook closed the ship has gone

As it has done before

Where it sails no tongue can tell

No one was on board