For the successes that we have
Are as the land,
And all our hopes and plans
As trees and flowers,
But our failings are the droplets
Of the sea and rain
And all our fears and worries - 
Winds and storms.

And I am so adrift, so far, so floundering
Though there's most a lifetime learning how to swim,
Till I have thought me too far gone
Or that the raging sky and sea might never ease agai...

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Out of the blue they appeared

Composure broken, cast adrift

Lately she'd been evading me

My questions got short shrift

Nature can only take so much

Secrets discompose its skills

So long we had been at odds

Life an endless battle of wills

We had survived enough wars

Love adrift on waves of years

But nothing prepared me for

The truth in hot sudden tears

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They see me

Without a word

Through the sea white mist

Slow silent slip away

They see me

An empty vessel

Adrift from my moorings

Fading to the horizon

To move, like night, from sea to sea

They see me

Haze distanced

Lost to all and love

Hull down, alone

Eternally to drift

To tide or current whim

Sometime becalmed

Drifting

Sometime storm blasted

D...

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