Calmly waiting locked in place I
Check again before I say goodbye
Bright and clear there’s every reason
Soon to be so many miles away
And all that I’ve learned
could be forgotten
In a moment I’d still act
and honour is intact
A picture appears
in my mind it fears
All of this may come to dust
A flame to break all bonds
The hope of everyone
And soaring above
And suddenly

Staring up through floors of wires and glass
Metal constructs and the questions last
Variations, firing sequence set
In my pocket everyone I’ve met

And not so long now
A faint pull towards
A sister alone
A fine distant shore
Cassandra weep not
In the mire won’t be caught
We’ll reap what we’ve wrought
And when we do go
No day or night we’ll know
And roaring above
And finally

There was a time
When all was hope for futures
And the sound
was long in its stare
Freezing moths, find sunlit air
In the wastes
and dark between
Clutch this breath, of worn out things

Few more
Waiting for, waiting for…
Panel light
little sun
X and O
and life is done
Smooth halls
White gleam of youth
Memory is friend
To drift is truth
Theory has said
Machines have spoken
Lights all are red
And calling

Cassie waves her spell and shows the way
Take my hand again/Hold on and find the wind
Walk in beauty
Love eternity
Beacon it shines for us/Something is there for us

Wind almost throws me off side
Air fresh and burning sun
Waves to each other confide
Skirting across we run
Take the wheel
And pull around on my mark
we’re stopping here
And down we go
I wish I
wish I were old enough to take a dive alone
and give you all I’d find

Storms of last March set us back
but April showed promise and signs
We knew that patterns would come
We’d show them after all
I grew up
Among the sailors and the searchers on their screens
And so I’d dream
From the rocks
And the sands and far below these five seas
I’d find my fleece

Moon picks us out in the night
One ship alone all awake
The signal keeps calling, signal keeps shouting!
What we’ve been seeking and all understanding will change
Forever more
I have been
From the big lake to the shoal and I have seen
What few have seen
From the deep, to the furthest reaches will eventually
Lead us on

I did see
And all the threads begun that day they will remain
Will stay with me
I can feel
We’re about to break away from all we knew
All convention

Grasping for the line
You never held out for me
Erode away my time
My eyes are what I can’t see
Future and past
Are all right here before me
We’re not at home
And everything is always

The smallest of things we know
Reaching out and distance is
No barrier and meaningless right now
And so large a system calls
Just to talk from whence it came
Just to know another’s name
Wondering out
Vastness and voids it can’t reach
Till lifelines were sent