By: Felix L. Perry

From the shore I saw the mast

Like a compass pointer to the stars

Red light on it’s starboard side

Green light beneath the planet Mars

Just an old single-mast sailboat

Gliding waves silently under sail

No ringing phone and no internet

Not even letters sent by slow mail

I wondered where she hailed from

And where she might be headed to

I wished that we were onboard her

Lover’s dream just right for two

In my head I heard Calypso music

It carried us on that boat to far away

You and I dancing naked on the deck

Where the gentle breezes seem to play

Yawning I closed my eyes a second

I opened them again the boat was gone

But that sweet dream of you and I

For so long lingered on and on…