Shadow Steps on Water

In this legend of yore

Waves lash the shore

If you were to look out to sea

You would see

An island manifest in light

And those who go near it are saved from their plight

A figure steps through the waves

And any who saw it would be amazed

To see a being so benign

But they cannot see the eyes of thine

Cloaked in shadows

The figure travels

Past the ragged cliffs and the roaring waves

And through a haze,

You, if you watched closely, would see

How far away the figure will be

By the dawn of early light

The figure of legend will be in flight

Across the ocean with no need for a ship

To flee those who are indifferent

To find those who may understand

Something about the land

The land that we live on

Is a distant vision through the throng

Of people, the poison that destroys us all

But it is so hard to find the fall

The fall of the light

The fall of the right

The fall of the earth’s sons and daughters

And the beginning of the shadow steps on waters