V Of Pelicans - Jay Clifford

Taken by the ocean and the wind

Procession of broken pieces

What's left now floating like a V of pelicans

Captured by the slowly falling tide

Scattered drift wood

A doomed armada now crossing in search of the other side

With the darkness eminent

Everyone tries to find a way back home again

Nothing but a frame of skin and bone

She takes a deep breath to drown

Or baptize this river with the tears she's never known

A shadow of a wolf across the beach

Silver and black a guardian

Over the chasm that keeps us out of reach

With the darkness eminent

Everyone tries to find a way back home again

Hidden in a single grain of sand

A numinous charge of light

A sudden unveiling with a chance to understand

It doesn't matter now just what she wants

The messages drift across horizons

Half under like a flock of cormorants

With the darkness eminent

Everyone tries to find a way back home again

Taken by the ocean and the wind

Procession of broken pieces

What's left now floating like a V of pelicans

With the darkness eminent

Everyone tries to find a way back home again

With the darkness eminent

Everyone tries to find a way back home again