Escape from Neptune

The wind’s tortured scream blew from the North

As crashing waves beat rock to sand

I stood watching from the cliff tops

Trying hard to understand

My tears melded with the raindrops

My despairing sighs wept with its force

How could god just take her from me?

Should I question nature’s course

I heard the thundering voice of King Neptune

Come walk with me in my frothy wake

I’ll take away your sorrows and cares

If you’ve taken all that you can take

My ocean waves, like arms, will rock you

Till in my eternal depths you’ll sleep

Where the sea will hide your sorrows

I’ll hold them in my endless deep

My feet pleaded me to follow the trail

Closer, closer to old Neptune’s voice

With the sting of salt brine on my lip

I stood there debating still my choice

Then another voice far gentler still

Invaded on intimate thoughts of doom

Daddy who will tell me bedtime stories

The veil lifted from my mortal doom.