A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea

A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea

By Brian Thomas Armstrong

A child looked out upon the dawn and wondered of her father

The mother held her tears and watched the girl stare out the window

A mast, a ship, a darkened haze floating in the horizon

But none was seen among the waves, and the child feared her father taken by Poseidon

All day she stood there gazing out and not a word she said, unspoken worries her mother shared
for she also feared her husband dead

All night again the child stayed gazing at the darkened sea, but in the new dawn still she waited

and still no relief for them had come to be

Some say the sad girl waits there still, and on darkened lonely nights

If you go to her old cabin you can see her in the window staring out upon the stormy waves

when you turn out the candle lights