Flicker Poem by Sophia White

The shore is fast receding into a distant line
Merging with the sun and the sky tonight
Here am I, drifting through the sea
Or could it be
That it’s the sky?
All I ever knew, all I ever tried
Comes to nothing, fading with tide.
Down comes the sun, up goes the moon
Down come I, to the lonely tune
Free at last, and oh so alone.
How could I have ever known?
To drift free is to drift alone
To part with the world is forever free to be
But how could I have ever known?
Freedom is exactly where I have gone
But behind it, that curtain of light,
Oh, the light fades into the loneliest night.
To be free is to be me
Alone and drifting through starry seas
To be free is to never be
A part of any beautiful heart.
Here I go, I follow the sun,
And it deceives me as faster I run
Behind the earth, beneath the sky
The sun flickers, fades, and finally dies.
Is this the story then? The story of all time?
The sun disappears only to die.
What about the sunlit land it promised lay there
Behind the earth, beneath the sky?
Here I go, I follow the sun,
But now I know the course that I run
Is a sunless path away from you.
So what now? What can I do?
Keep on running, away from you.
Maybe they’re all wrong, and the earth is still round
So maybe one day I’ll stand on that ground
Where the shore looks out to an endless sea
And there you’ll stand, waiting for me.