Cast A Way

 

Lured were passenger and crew to an imagined treasure.
Their riches squandered in dreams of selfish pleasure.
But when plans are made while dismissing fates hand.
Destiny mocked wishes of reaching there far away land.
The graves omen lay dead upon the vessels cursed deck.
None heed the gull’s corps warning of a soon to be wreck.
God’s breath churned the deep calling all souls to come home.
In mercy’s keep are spared the chosen to not be alone.
Upon an angry sea sat a refuge of hewn wood.
A vacant death haunts survivor its truth understood.
The souls huddled in mass to wait silently in prayer.
While stabs of salt spray bore in their despair.
“Land!” Called out a voice disturbs the tranquility.
A lonely rocky sentinel defying the eternal blue sea.
Through a deepening night rowed the blessing and blest.
Until safely ashore none dared to take rest.
The sea bears no mark against the boat’s cutting oar.
The skiff weaves drunkenly to beach upon the seashore.
Grateful weep landlords of a new paradise.
And are pitiful witnesses to their seafarers demise.
The instinct to live burned deep in there soul.
Tethered in hope displaced fears icy control.
Twin peaks towered above the jungles carpet of green.
While shouts of songbirds came from places unseen.
So rich was the land with all manor of fruit.
‘Twas Eden once more no soul could dispute.
In the wound of a mountain gapped a sheltering cave.
A foreboding stone place like the tomb of a grave.
Torches chased shadows that’d escape in the night.
There secret discovered by the flames flickering light.
Pirates blood bounty abandoned a lifetime ago.
Only God and hell’s children are the few that would know.
Inheritors of great wealth that dwarfed ruler or king.
But away from their kind little good did it bring.
The trade quickly dismissed there earlier need.
There souls repossessed by the specter of greed.
Slaves to the freedom these riches may hold.
Agreements made shares of the coveted gold.
Cast off at first light during the ocean’s high tide.
Want took faith’s place to misguide this doomed ride.
Like a dream fled the island none even dared speak.
Times desperate truth shown spirits foolish and weak.
How priceless their treasure how little it’s worth.
As death took it’s claim on these lost kings of the earth.