There is a sailor who dreams of the sea
Who wanders deserts miserably
There is a pilot come time to die
Whose wings weren’t strong enough to fly
There is a painter who never held brush
Whose visions hold colors deep and lush
There is a singer in an empty room
Whose silence fills the world with doom
There is a poet who cannot read
Whose holy prayers will not be freed
And there is an angel to God’s Earth cast
Who holds all these in bondage fast
© John Gillen 2021
