The Cormorant

Album: The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (2021)
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  • Am I imprisoned on this island?
    I have tried, I've tried to swim away
    Out to the buoy
    Ebony rose
    But the current is too strong
    I now drift daydreaming
    To when we were happy here on this beach
    We played with our children
    And they were happy too

    Tipping goes the cormorant
    I think she knows I'm a pathetic intruder
    Into the abyss
    And I have watched her too
    From the stony beach
    That was black in the last year
    Before the storm
    Elsewhere sometimes
    I can see beyond the lighthouse

    The uncharted cruise ship
    Anchored way off
    As though the last party on earth
    Continues to vast horizons
    Container ships
    Full of glass vials

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