A Man in Love with the Sea

A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free

Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny

To dive deeply

he lives to work and play

Occasionally he stops to pray

To utter a quiet word away

In a situation he at his best

strives to be authentic

Nothing else will do

A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free

Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny

To think brilliantly

his particular birthright

He takes passion and

steps lightly into town

If abstracts prove wrong

outcasts know better

A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free

Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny

He takes swiftness

offers it to the wind

If every place on earth

remembers an idea

Held onto for safekeeping

he then sifts truth

A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free

Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny

The idea is to see

to let others be free

He makes them chairs

boats desks and stairs

So they might find

a way to the kind

Of place

none can trace

Sweet solemnity

oh wide silence

Man of Acadia

For JFCyr