Your Glow

You lost your feeling for the waves

Before we ran aground

And you lost thirteen men to the waves

We watched them all go down

Find you babbling in the sand there

Trying to find the thread

Spend an hour or so beside you

Cradling your head

It's time for you to go

But you never lost your glow

You lost a lot of sleep

Before the fever broke

And you found a kingdom by the fire

Rising in the smoke

Leave you here, or let the ocean

Claim you for its own?

Keep you here, or tithe you to the tides

To die here all alone?

Breathing through your visions, soft and slow

You never lost your glow

Your light, your signal

Fifteen did respond

Just me left now, and you, about

To learn what lies beyond

When we wake up from the big dreams

Of empires in the surf

If there's nothing left but water

Then let water be enough

Thirteen gone, one vanished

You well on your way

Adrift for half your life

Headed home today

"Be still and know"

You never lost your glow