A Life's Voyage
Poem by Elise Cookson, photograph by Matt Hardy
A battered Barque, upon the seas,
Alone among the waves;
A coming storm entraps the breeze,
And brings along a haze
Blinded by the elder fog
That long has kept at bay,
The monstrosities of an epilogue
To sailors’ final days
But like the captain of the ship
Enduring for his men;
The options slim, are to equip
Fighting to the bitter end
An act of valiant uncertainty,
Rivaled only by the chance
To steer to land - a life-saving plea -
But a coward’s well-known dance
