The sea: vast and deep blue

Always steadfast and changing

Deceptive yet ever true

Like shifting sands rearranging

A perilous voyage is the sea

The edge of all the world

This the ancient mystery

Upon which no curtain has unfurled

There dawn calls; a glorious morn

The sky is blue without a cloud

But by night the sails are torn

Lightning and thunder calls aloud

And in the morning, the sky is clear

The ship is damaged but stands fast

The sea that shook it, cradles it near

As is true love, as it is vast

James Mungall