Erika Koenig-Workman

A Man in Love with the Sea


A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free


Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny


To dive deeply

he lives to work and play


Occasionally he stops to pray

To utter a quiet word away


In a situation he at his best

strives to be authentic


Nothing else will do


A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free


Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny


To think brilliantly

his particular birthright


He takes passion and

steps lightly into town


If abstracts prove wrong

outcasts know better


A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free


Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny


He takes swiftness

offers it to the wind


If every place on earth

remembers an idea


Held onto for safekeeping

he then sifts truth


A man in love with the sea

deserves to be free


Her saltiness he cannot

resist or deny


The idea is to see

to let others be free


He makes them chairs

boats desks and stairs


So they might find

a way to the kind


Of place

none can trace


Sweet solemnity

oh wide silence


Man of Acadia


For JFCyr