Please Captain

You’re a lyric

In a song

I’ve not yet wrote

But time may see to it

I don’t utter a note

You’re a leaf

On the branch

Of a dying tree

You don’t want to fall

But you long to be free

 

I’m a carpet

That’s tread on

Time and again

No one can see

The remaining threads

I’m an icicle

Still hanging

On shingles bare

Slow melting inside you

Invisible air

 

I’m cut off

From everyone

Just like I planned

I try to explain

You just

Cant understand

The voices

That ask this

Hold sway over me

You’ll take my hand

But you’ll never

Be free

 

Captain Captain  Captain please

Make for the forest, the cover of trees

Captain Captain my Captain I beg

For love of the lives of a dozen men

 

You’re a species

Of insect

Discovered but rare

You evade being captured

All mystery fair

You’re a sonnet

Thats written far before my time

I can’t hear the words

But I know your rhyme

 

I’m a shanty-town

dirty

Homes upon rows

I sink with the aged

I sleep with their bones

I’m a fairytale told

To scare you to sleep

Not once yet described

But hideous in sleep

 

A garden a candle

A tear

A goodbye

I turn so youll never

Catch gleam

From my eye

They told me 

Expect this and

I’ve been prepared

Soliloquies over 

We return

And defend

 

I’ll scream

I’ll cry

I’ll thrash

You’ll fly

I’ll break

I’ll bend 

I’ll crash

You’ll smile

I’ll topple

I’ll falter

I’ll crumble

You’ll be

It’s moment like these

That you’ll never know me

 

Captain Captain oh Captain please

Lead us from evil, deep seeded disease

Captain Captain my Captain I beg

For the lives of the dozen that live in one man

 

And once more 

We plead it

On bended knee

Captain My Captain

Just let us go free.