Down by the Water

Ashes fall into sunlit waves

Is it rest, is it escape?

Now they sink into the deep dark deep

Is it waiting, is it sleep?

The waves are salty, just like tears

Is it loss, is it relief?

Are you borne upwards by our prayers?

Are you worn down by our grief?

All that is must come undone

Our end is certain as the setting of the sun

All that wakes must come to sleep

Our days are lent they are not ours to keep

We go meet up down by the water

Down by the water

When this day is over

Down by the water

Now the years have run on by

And when I recall your face

I try and try but cannot bring to mind

Some of the lines which time has erased

All that is must come undone

The day is certain as the setting of the sun

Every day must end in night

Until that veil is torn which now blocks our sight