Silent Sea

When I was a boy

I crossed the sea

My wrists rubbed raw by chains

And the seabed was soft

Beneath sore feet

Oceans came down like rain

And by the light of the waning moon

I saw shadows swim beyond

The walls that rose above our heads

And rolled silently along

A fish came close to me that night

I reached out to touch its scales

But it disappeared when I came close

Swallowed by a whale

When I was a boy

I left behind

The chains bestowed to me

By men drowned in the crushing wake

Of my silent walls of sea.