HORIZON


     He stands the watch of fragile hope
     to glimpse salvation's distant sign.
     Who's form may thrill his heart of faith
     or wound his sad and tortured mind.

     These endless days of bleak dispair
     may drive the sentinal to weep.
     Who often scorned the touch of love
     before this fated prison keep.

     He guards the signal fire's wood
     A holy virgin sacrifice.
     That sweet unconsummated flesh
     where rescue's promise, sleeps tonight.

     The tireless crashing of the waves
     lay smooth the watchers granite soul
     Who often dreams of lovers kiss
     with ocean eyes and passion bold.

     He trembles, crushed beneath the pride
     that lured him to this lonely reef.
     What cruel demons haunt the tide
     where tender joy has gone to grief.

     Beyond the limit of his sight
     he hears the honeied voice of peace.
     the oceans promise for his wife
     embracing him with gentle ease.

     On reaching for her silken hand
     he lay his life upon her breast.
     To taste the depths that lovers might
     beyond the far horizons crest.


			    B.E.