Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Faith
Rating: ★5.0
I saw you in the red dawn of the Northern Lights
and I saw you in the Southern Aurora
a few weeks after sunset
Stars in the polar skies
do not like to rise and set
or
disappear
they just linger
circling overhead
I took your hand
a nexus ribbon
as it
extended
out to me
In the Southern Cross
I saw your eyes
smile across the
sea
I watched as
Tierra del Fuego burst into flames
from the warmth of your heart
as the sun began to rise
I rounded Cabo de Hornos
in a gale wind
with the tempest in rage
the ghostly glow of St. Elmo's Fire
danced on the masthead
hissing along a musical scale
the ship a cathedral awash in blue light
there was nothing to fear
the rising sea consumed the bow
no turning about
side by side we rode
I did not know until that voyage
that the heavens loved me so…