An Insular Life - Shearwater

A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye

As we sailed to the world from an insular life

From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives

From the sun’s red blooming

With a shadow on every life

And we laid in the dark through the thundering nights

And awoke to an ocean shimmering white

Where the hull scrapes on the silent ice

And the gulls on the frozen ropes

Oh, the lights on the floor let the audience rise

Let them file through the halls still assured in their lives

Until the sky shudders open impossibly wide

And the room glows in the sudden light

They are gone, they are gone for life