A Ghost's Tale

A sea bound romance

washed ashore leaving ripples in the sand,

melancholy, the lighthouse giving way

to no direction.

She sees me like an apparition,

void, and devoid; a ghost of a sailor

that's lost his way from a sunken ship.

His lover trapped in an oyster

below the depths of blue, a pearl

without a cause or hope.

He walks the sand

leaving no footprints

searching for something he's lost,

that something, buried beneath the tales

of Moby Dick - through time and distance,

his obsession—lethargic.

What once was his one desire, now defeated,

emerged a love of his true tale.

And he will continue to walk this endless beach

until he finds that pearl,

washed upon these silken sands.