Scandies Rose

By Regina M. Elliott

Will you remain with us, Scandies Rose?
we'll always be your rugged salty crew,
chapped by the ocean's kiss.
You were our mainstay and our vessel,
you went down the depths with us.
The sea with her surface of blue glass,
of swells of tempests-
Our sweet Rose,
Twenty foot seas and icing,
Forty mile per hour winds,
you were listing on your starboard
side,
and now the oceanic beauty has
our bodies in her tidal bosom.
The sun gifts the brine golden,
yet, there was never a promise to
return to a misty welcoming harbor.

Neath eve stars,
our wives awakening from dreams
without rest.
Our children's faces stream with
tears trickling down into the
receiving seas of our spirits.
Will the mysteries of the deep,
turn them to another life on land.

In the moss-green waves,
in the seabirds' cries
our souls are sealed,
Poseidon's loss,
as we are everlasting sons
of our Lord's keep.

In Loving Memory

Capt Gary Cobban Jr., David Cobban,

Seth Rousseau-Gano, Arthur Ganacias,

Brock Rainey.