SEA CREATURE

Deep, deep down, in the sea, where nothing else ought to be
There lives a creature that shouldn’t be

This creature lives on dreams you see
This creature deep beneath the sea
 
When all is still in dead of night
When children sleep with thoughts of fright
         
This creature leaves the salty sea
And looks for dreamers, like you and me
 
It isn’t good to dream, you see
It draws the creature from the sea
And when it comes on cool still nights
It’s bound to be a scary sight.
 
I did not know it was around
Until I heard the swishing sound
The darkness held it’s ghostly fright
I knew it was, just out of sight
 
And with a step, the stars were gone
There was no light, there was no sun
 I told myself this cannot be
 Not to a dreamer just like me
 
There was not fear or despair
The fear of darkness was not there
The creature had instilled in me
 A sense that it would care for me
 
Deep in the sea we traveled, we.
And talked of things we could not see
A thousand nights, a thousand days
We traveled on beneath the waves
 
My heart is filled with love for thee
For there is only one of me
All my life I roamed the sea
And found none to compare to thee
 
There used to be a tribe of me
We’d sing and dance beneath the sea
But now there’s one and only one
And now my day has almost come
 
Darkness has come over me
A darkness that is calling me
To deeper places neath the sea
To seek the ones who’ve gone from me
 
And now my work is almost done
And when I’m gone there will be none
None to share the dreams you see
The dreams of lovers of the sea
 
                                  John Ricard 3/21/05