A Poem by a Navy Man

A long time has passed;
My world has taken change
To a cell-ship mission
With freedom out of range.
The minutes seem unreal;
The days a forgotten time
Alone upon the purple waves,
Alone my cause sublimed.
Yes, they'd changed my soul
And mutated my goal,
And I now walk alone,
To sit in sorrow;
To weep no morrow
To toss on Neptune's throne.
One after another
The purple waves and white
Toss the ship, twist &tip
The sterett in the night.


To my father, the Navy man....