A Mother To The Sea.

You are blue, you are blue like the sky,
    Cruel and cold and blue,
And I turn from you, voiceless sea,
    To a sky that is voiceless, too.

Upward the vast blue arch,
    Downward the blue abyss,
With a line of foam where your lips
    Meet in a passionless kiss.

But the silence is breaking my heart,
    And tears cannot comfort me
With God in His cold blue sky,
    And my boy in the cold blue sea.