Shipwrecked
	A storm befell us One darkened night In gale force winds For survival, we fight Wooden hull creaking In forty foot swell How can we endure This living hell The mast, now splintered Sails, now ragged shreds Cries of mariners Aroused, from their beds Man overboard A shipmate falls In darkness unseen For help. he calls Battered, pounded Gale force winds lash Blown toward land Into rocks, we smash Our vessel now wrecked The Captain roars Man the lifeboats Break out the oars Sinking, in the distance To ocean bed below Faces, etched in pain Weakened arms row In the cold, of the ocean Cries, of men in pain Lost, to depths below Never, to be seen again
Copyright: Robert Lewis 1998-2003 Worldwide All rights reserved This poem may not be copied by any means without the express permission of the author