I Won't Fear The Sunlight
#13 of poetry
I wrote a tune for this one, don't know if there's a way to upload that.
The waves upon the silken sands
Are softer than his breath
Where he lies safe below the palms
In sleep as deep as death.
Soon I will rise from here, and go
Down to the opal shore.
And I won't fear the sunlight
Anymore.
I know the taste of warm, clean wind
That paints the beach sand white.
I've climbed the cliffs among cool clouds
In jungles of moonlight.
Now all my nights have passed me by.
There's nothing to wait for.
So I won't fear the sunlight
Anymore.
Perhaps he will remember me
Alone upon this isle.
Perhaps another castaway
Will teach him how to smile.
Perhaps he'll wonder where I went
Beyond where white gulls soar,
Then he won't fear the sunlight
Anymore.
But now the east is lightening.
Each whitecap is aglow.
What is it sets my heart alight?
I know. I think I know.
Day overwhelming rises up
And I've seen it before,
So I don't fear the sunlight
Anymore.