Unmoored, We Set Sail Lyrics

Unmoored we set sail

To cross the Atlantic sea

Six others and me

The sailboat seemed small

With so little relevance

Set atop the sea

Wind ushered us toward

The curve of the horizon

In futile pursuit

Night's dark purple sky

Brought a miracle of stars

All storytellers

There were also nights

When moonlight glowed in the sky

Like late afternoon

Sea clouds would mimic

Currents, horizons, the wind

And all of our minds

Shimmering shadows

Appeared in kaleidoscopes

Like ghosts of the sea

Mountains ran stumbling

In heaving masses across

An endless ocean

For one week the sea

Carried us through her stampede

In violent pursuit

When the sea grew calm

We seven strewn on the deck

Rejoiced in the sun

And then the wind died

Or entered hibernation

Doldrums broke our minds

Sunk into despair

Thoughts too heavy to carry

Closed in from all sides

Each day passed like months

The sea rose and fell slowly

Like a sleeping chest

Drowsy and restless

And with nowhere to wander

We dove in the sea

A cargo ship passed

Our radio sparked with life

And then it was gone

When wind brushed my neck

My heart filled with gratitude

For its hopefulness

We touched land again

First an archipelago

Then the coast of Spain

Wind is like the sea

When it whispers we forget

Its enormity