To the Atlantic

Out on the coast

I heard the howl

Of the Atlantic Sea

The music of the whales

Coming up for air 

Flow together in harmony

I heard my sister 

From the shore 

Oh how she loved me so

Her blue eyes 

Her pale complexion 

Brings a hazy memory from long ago

The children 

How they clamber 

Up upon the midnight rocks

They wobble 

And they timber 

They wave “hello” from above the docks 

The birds 

From over yonder 

Flew all the way from Tennessee 

To the Atlantic 

By the island 

To the ocean right by me