Sailor's Reply Series 2

 (a reply to Siren Song by Margaret Atwood)

I'm not stupid. I know what you think 

Of me

About to leap onto sharp rocks to save her

I know that love should not be so pointed

And no man has ever gone

Where I go now and lived to tell

What would you have me do?

Sit safe and dry aboard this ship 

And steel my heart and look past her cry 

For help and on towards the fuzzy horizon

I know I will leap like I know the sun

Will rise in the morning and maybe this time

It will not rise on another 

Shattered set of bones sprawled across the rocks

Sailor's Reply

(a reply to Siren Song by Margaret Atwood)

There is nothing I would like more 

Then to splinter my bones on the sharp rocks

If it will save you

If you need help, 

I can be--no I must be

The one who can save you

Even if the proof of the failure of every man before me

Lays skewered on the sharp rocks below me

I know in my heart

I will be the one to save you.