Title: Leave A Light
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: ~200 words
Content notes: An overextended metaphor. It's all that ships talk at ffw_social, I tell you.
Author notes:
Summary: This is about sailors and about random encounters.



I unfurled my sails this morning
For the wind to take me away
They filled and billowed, drawing my boat
Out to high seas through the spray.

I wished to stay forever
Between the salt water and sky
No sound but the waves and cries of the gulls
And a dolphin passing me by.

Your sail floated into my vision
In the light of the afternoon
By nightfall I had caught up with you
Shared your deck by the light of the moon.

Parallels meet in infinity
So our courses did too, for a while.
I enjoyed the sound of your voice
The sight of your sails close by.

When our courses diverged, we parted
Still strangers more than friends.
I don't know what your name is
Or where your journey ends.

But god speed to you and fair sailing
And landfall on pleasant ground.
If ever your ship passes mine in the night -
Leave a light so you can be found.