Sea Song

You look different every time

You come from the foam-crested brine

It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight

Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale

Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?

Joking apart

When you're drunk, you're terrific

When you're drunk, I like you mostly

Late at night, you're quite alright

But I can't understand the different you

In the morning, when it's time to play

At being human for a while

Please smile

You'll be different in the spring, I know

You're a seasonal beast

Like the starfish that drift in with the tide, with the tide

So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon

Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own

Your lunacy fits neatly with my own

My very own

We're not alone