Words Poem by Alison Mary Dunn

I want to throw myself away into the graceful light of words
And cast my soul among the waves that sweep into the sea of knowing
Where wisdom breaks against the shore to fill the void that never sleeps
Cooling these fires inside my soul that keep my happiness from growing


I watch the rocks come tumbling down as children play between the wars
Somehow their smiles are all we have to see the love we leave behind
How we forsake ourselves and them sharpening our knives to make a point
As history’s scars swell in the sea buried beneath the sands of time

Before the dawn a thousand dreams escape the night where words are stars
Too deft for man’s uncharted gaze to grasp the meaning they bestow
Close to the beacon in a storm another ship will break it’s bow
To join the wreckage of our past among the failures we all know

Could you be me and I be you trading our sands for distant shores
And navigate some hope to fall in one another’s darkened mind
Through open portals to the sea where storms may finally come to rest
The winds of change could carry peace for us to seek to dream to find

So come with me and be astray where words will bring us back to love
And cast our hearts among the waves that sweep into the sea of knowing
Where wisdom breaks against the shore to fill the void that never sleeps
Cooling these fires inside the soul that keep all happiness from growing