SEA LANES

Keep checking for the sight

of your ship coming into your harbor

freshly dredged of need and greed.

 It’s bound to be just beyond the earth’s curve

carrying the cargo your heart has so longed awaited

since you sent it sailing on wings of prayers

hoping for treasures to be found.

Did you expect to wait a lifetime for that return voyage;

was it hard all this time

working your life away

waiting until the ships coming home day?

And what is it you will see as you watch

those holds of your promised returns emptied?

Will you be able to accept the goods

of other lands and cultures come your way?

Or will you feel cheated of the time

you spent looking for its arrival?

Expect no surprises

as the nets hit the dock.

For wherever it was

that ship of your fortune went to

you may not have known it

but you were both captain and crew.

In the night sky depth

Stars guide my lonely voyage

Discovering peace

Many journeys end learning

Finding I never left port

© M Durfee

8/1/13