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A Sailor's Goodbye

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Submitted by jacketbundock on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 12:25am

There’s a beautiful girl who waits by the sea,

Drowning in her unconditional love for me,

I see no way out of this eternal black,

Please watch over her, I won’t be coming back.

 

Lord I beg of you, don’t let her fade away,

Don’t let her days fade into an endless grey.

Even though I’ll be gone, her life will still be there,

Tell her I’ll be with her in her every breath of air.

 

Lord please forgive me for all that I have done,

And thank you for the sea, Lord, the moon, the stars, and the sun.

Thank you for my life, Lord, my wife, my love,

We will embrace again, only this time up above.

 

Please take me to your kingdom upon this stormy night,

Away from cold water crests and lightning that strikes bright.

 

But don’t forget the girl with the ocean deep blue eyes,

For I hope to see her again, someday, somewhere in the

Skies.

 

 

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I loved reading this, great

Submitted by doug.demaio on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 10:13am.

I loved reading this, great cadence... I wanna hear how you read this. Podcast? :)

If you want to view paradise, simply look around, and you will. Anything you want to... do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.

 

Beautiful

Submitted by GlitterGirl2613 on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 12:40pm.

Wow, that was really beautiful. I loved everything about that. I would also love to hear you say it. Please make a podcast!

That was

Submitted by NABooker1107 on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 12:28pm.

That was probably the best prey to god I have ever heard! Its rich with the stuff. NICE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thanks everyone! I will see

Submitted by jacketbundock on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 9:24pm.

Thanks everyone! I will see if I can figure out how to do a podcast (I have never done one before!).

 People say if you look down, you will fall, but if you look up, will you fly?

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This makes me think of the

Submitted by lserver362 on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 6:17pm.

This makes me think of the sailor down at the waterfront in Burlington. I really love the prayer aspect, super nice!

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wow

Submitted by emmthegreatscs on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 8:52pm.

Erin, this is really thoughtful, I guess, I don't know the right word for it. I am amazed by your seamless rhyming and incorporating prayer (why don't you do that at church hehe). How did you come up with this idea? Last time I checked, you are not drowning, but I am just wondering how you thought of this...

-Emily