When dawn was gray you went... «Prospero's Children»
rosemary_remembers14 ноября 2012When dawn was gray you went to catch the tide leaving me waking to an empty bed for I was loved and loved but never wed and left alone to hope and pray and fear: God speed you back to me, my bonny dear.
The storm came screaming from the ocean’s heart shredding the clouds, whipping the waves to foam; a broken spar was all the sea sent home when darkling night gave way to morning drear. No last farewell for three, my bonny dear.
I went to church but not in bridal white and sang the hymns, although you did not come, and laid pale garlands on a vacant tomb and said a prayer for no one else to hear: God keep your soul somewhere, my bonny dear.
Where once I kissed your cheek the fishes feed and mermaid-children steal your finger-bones to play at dice, and on your bed off stones the whale-songs echo through your hollow ear: Sleep well forever there, my bonny dear.
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