Elucidation

A delicate wind graces my hair -

A shiver from the silent fear

One last breath for bravery...

Crystals of salt and sand inhaled as I embark on this journey.

This changes everything -

A whole new life, a whole new world!

Let's sail beyond the horizon -

There is so much more!

Let's begin

I worked as I was told to

Catalogued the days

Certified events here

Permits and deeds they all came from me

I lived as I was told to

Counting off the days

Paid my bills on time here

Dared not to dream too much in my sleep

In my life

Never someone like her to understand me -

No hero to take her away from this place

She loved me as best she could and did not ask me why

I buried her and quietly filed her away

I did what I was told to

Heeded all the rules

Fell in line in place here

Watched what I said with nothing to say

I felt what I was told to

Turned the other way

Swallowed all my years here

Smiled through the days as my life slipped away

All my life

Never caring to see what's beyond me...

My heart is buried deep in the stone of this land

My daughter took good care and did not ask me why

She's with me now, to quietly sail me away

What is life?

Was I living a life of illusion?

With pencil and stamp I marked the lives lived before me

Old waters and mountains are new in this dying man's eyes

My daughter's in my heart and she will show me the way