Lullaby To Erle
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by Silje Nergaard
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Mothers have woven a black velvet ocean
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and spread it between the night and day shores
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so that children might sleep, gently rocked by the motion
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of waves beneath boats built by fathers like yours
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With you safe aboard by the shore we will linger
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and watch as your breathing it fills up the sail
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you loosen the moorings....your grip on our finger
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and leave on the velvet a silvery trail
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Alone on the shore with our hearts close to breaking
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we stand in the wake as you glide from our reach
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calmed by the thought that the voyage you're taking
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will bring you at dawning back safe to this beach
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We cannot sail with you, be there to guide you
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or pilot your boat through the dark of the night
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but no ocean cap keep you, no darkness can hide you
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away from our love and its undying light.
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Lullaby To Erle
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| Silje Nergaard |
