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Commissioning
Contributed by
theone00
on
Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 07:53:14 PM in AEST
Topic:
Lifepoems
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Only that morning we’d been commissioned
We cast off into open waters.
Never to dock again.
As the sun rose into the night sky
We turned our prow into the wind
And clearly reality came to meet us
“Tuk tuk for hire”
“Please sir, hire a tuktuk”
They bounced as minnows off our bow.
We would not be daunted.
What could mere words do?
On we sail; to find the furthest ocean
*
Now, moored in a different harbour
A more permanent one
Green barnacles crawl over our hull
Weighed down with stores
Never to put to sea again.
So when the bell rings
And we’re asked if we can spare
A moment of our time
We cannot sail on.
Instead, we sit there
And remember youthful times
And live in memory of what we were.
Copyright ©
theone00
... [
2008-08-20 19:53:14] (Date/Time posted on
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