Standing by the ocean side,
A word of waves and wind and tide,
Where tiny creatures live and hide,
And wonders of the Earth reside.
I wish that with a single leap,
I could reach the bottom deep,
To see where whales and monsters sleep,
And treasure chests, their gold to reap.
I long to see far past the haze,
That hides the oceans from my gaze,
For the horizon, with it’s simple ways,
And the sunshine with it’s blinding rays;
They hide the things I’d like to see;
An expanse of water, wild and free,
That hides an awesome mystery,
That baffles the whole world with me.
For so little we know, so little we’ve found,
About what lies on the ocean’s ground,
About those fish that dart around
Or the whales that make their mourning sounds.
I fancy that I could build a boat,
Out of the wood that bobs and floats,
I could tie them together with string from my coat,
Then ride the sea like a small, bottled note.
Then my mother calls me to come to the car,
And leave my dreams of worlds afar,
For the sun soon gives way to the Moon and the star,
So I run ‘cross the pavement, feet sticking like tar.
And I feel that wonder slip away,
And though I wish that it could stay,
As the sunset lights the end of today,
My mind starts to work, it ceases to play
.
Goodbye to the daydreams, at least for now,
Goodbye to the why, the what, and the how,
Through the trials of life, I sort and plow,
The world now insists, so at last, I allow.
