December 29th Poem

Walking To The Sea
(December 2005)
Josh MacLeod

We may return or keep on going
Just start walking and never stop
Because some men are done with doing
And of finding cracks to hop

Sometime we’ll break our mothers backs
And won’t care now no more
We’ll walk ‘lone down different tracks
And open brand new doors.

And the sky is above the sea
And we are all sailing free
And the wind always blows
But do you suppose
It blows for you and me?

We’ve been on this road so very long
Though we first stepped out today
And we made it a song even if we did wrong
And though we had words to say.

The birds are flying above our heads, and
The stars, they fill the sky
And while we’re alive, not halfway dead
We’ll never sit down and die.

We’ll keep on going and walk the road
However lonely it can be
We won’t be bending under heavy loads
And one day will reach the sea.

And the sky is above the sea
And we are all sailing free
And the wind always blows
But do you suppose
It blows for you and me?

We’ll go ‘til we drop, dance ‘til we fall
We’ll walk a road or seven
And if the way takes us straight down to Hell
We know we can turn off to Heaven.

And we’ll walk because we have begun
And because we have to finish
And we’ll only know if we’ve ever done
When we die or when we vanish

And the sky is above the sea
And we are all sailing free
And the wind always blows
But do you suppose
It blows for you and me?

So if you don’t hear from me
Not now, and not again
You can assume I’ve reached the sea
And won’t come back again.