By willtobe1
Date: 2006 Sep 05
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Mystery Ship/Whitecapping Seas and Million Star Skies (leaves of Unrequitable)

...
At a lone seaside cabin
At the dusk of an evening
Arriving all worn out
From talking and laughing, drinking and eating
And the dwindling day
Makes the glow from inside
Light the porch like the prow of a Mystery Ship
Afloat on a high-rolling sea of dark waves
As if poised to sail off to some starry domain
And yet... drifting,
a little uncertain, a little off course
Since we who are guiding this cruise of the night
Find ourselves all at once rather timid and shy
In the uncharted waters
of just you and I...

...
Back out on the porch in the balmy salt air
With a lifting wind stirring  
    your still damp edged hair
We stand at the rail looking somewhere out there
Over white-capping seas lit by million-star skies
And the pearl-silver glow of a moon
     soon to rise
All reflecting in brightly anticipant eyes
That I suddenly find are turned upward to mine
And dancing,
As if to the tune of a barely heard chime:
    "Now's the time
         now's the time
             now's the time
                 now's the time..."