TETHERED BOATS IN VELVET

I dreamt our boats were tethered,

forever in the ocean

One night I reached out to feel where you were.

And you were still.

I couldn’t find you in the velvet black

of midnight, when the waves tossed my little boat

From side to side, no anchor, no home, no option

But to keep riding on the choppy storm.

You and I like two catamarans that make one big beautiful vessel.

With so many places to go, things to make, beauty to behold

Love to grow.

One night I lay awake under a sky where the stars

Were muffled in indigo candy clouds

And I reached out to find if you were there

But you were still, so very still.

“I may have to go”, I whispered through the void

For a while, I don’t know

when I’ll be back

But I can’t carry on

If we don’t come out into the light now

and be truly seen.

But I promise..”

I said, as you rocked asleep on the waves

“We will always be joined underwater, always be joined under waves.”

I know you are quiet while keeping the crew

Safe on your back in the indigo blue

Not waking them up to cause an alarm

But your soul-sailing twin is coming to harm.

You lay sleeping and probably had not a clue

That our boat was turning and starbirds sang “It’s true

When we don’t wish to hurt those so very dear

When we’re frightened to disrobe and to do what we fear

We may instead cast away the one that is nearest

By being still, in the night, when they reach out to find us.”

I left you in the middle of the

Indigo sea,

But I kept hold of you in ways you just couldn’t see.

Love if you reach out in the dark to find me
and I am silent and still.

Know I'm very much here, reach a bit deeper to feel.

The harbour heart calling for this mysterious ‘home’

For an end to the rocking boat lost on the foam

The door was open waiting so the water got in.

If you enter love fully, if you jump fully in.

Or If you walk away fully, the door can be closed

No one hangs here forever in overexposed.

Silent I sailed on

But with the engine murmuring.

I kept the catamaran tied to yours

Under velvet sapphire covering.

Two boats drifted on

Through the endless night song.

Home in the homelessness of millions of stars

Awake in the hearts kept in millions of jars

And thrown to the waves to scurry them on

Who knows where we end up

Or to whom we belong? 

JB xx