Ashes

Across the eerie waters

Misty covered glass I spied

A sad procession snaking down

The dry and deathly trail

And as my telescopic eye

Focused on the marching line

It settled on the fallen crown

Now covered with a veil

The heavy weight of mourning

Drew each head to face the ground

Muscles tight on bearer arms

Each body cold and frail

And through the muslin mist

The beating drums the only sound

Twenty boat out in the bay

All ready to set sail

Ashes take me back to earth

Water quench my human thirst

Ashes take me back to earth

Water quench my human thirst

My bones soaked in the icy cold

And fixed me where I lay

Until each vessel left the shore

And made a line for me

There never was breeze

The leaves were silent all that day

They say the sails were ghosts

That stole the wind to set them free

I lay transfixed

Felt nothing but the beating of my fear

As flames rose up and swallowed whole

The greatest of the fleet

The others circled round

And I heard chanting fill the air

The ashes lifted high

Were falling back into the sea

Ashes take me back to earth

Water quench my human thirst

Ashes take me back to earth

Water quench my human thirst