Walls of Stillness

Walls of stillness Crept upon the sea Creasing sheets of breezes To chill so suddenly I had slept but for an hour Seemed t'was such an age Wondering how upon me waking The weather jumped a page And all the birds had all flown away To spin and reel for a warmer day And all the boats they just sat quite still They were whispering in their blindness All in the bay Giant gulls flew to roost Amidst the haze to find That all around sails hung loose In the doldrums left behind How you mould the mixture blue And moist the iced sea air And glaze the sun so softly To sift its glowing glare And all the birds had all flown away To spin and reel for a warmer day And all the boats they just sat quite still They were whispering in their blindness All in the bay Empty beauty so serene From the ocean to land Enveloping a stillness Like a mill pond to the sand Still there to feel and touch So close within my reach To reconnect and see so much In a sea fog on the beach In a sea fog on the beach And all the birds had all flown away To spin and reel for a warmer day And all the boats they just sat quite still They were whispering in their blindness All in the bay