Virginia's Song

I hear the waves, I cannot see them

my sight separated by a flimsy yellow blind

I’m half awake, I’m half asleep

struggling to contain myself with surf sight in my mind

oh I’d walk down the stair

feel soft stones and shell shards beneath my soles

let the water wash me clean and shock my soul

still my legs with icy cold if I weren’t too weak to walk

The sun is warm, the wind is cool

passing through these windows this room of my own exhales

the blinds blow in, blow out again

I wonder what I’d find outside if I weren’t so weak and pale

oh I’d walk down the stair

feel soft stones and shell shards beneath my soles

let the water wash me clean and shock my soul

still my legs with icy cold if I weren’t too weak to walk

And I don’t know what carried me here

impossible that I should be here

how could I survive the stinging blasts of sand

these four walls all I can see here

something poured the shell of me here

three guineas set me led and guided by an unseen hand

The sun has set, the moon is rising

someone shut the windows, all inside is still

if I am strong, if I am quiet

I may steal from out of here and execute my plan

where I walk down the stair

feel soft stones and shell shock beneath my soles

let the water wash me clean and shock my soul

paralyse my legs with icy cold

keep on walking, rocks in pocket

permit the sea to take me whole if I weren’t too weak to walk